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(cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
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bowling
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bowling is the second studio album of the Finnish jazz group U-Street All Stars .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowl \Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowling .] To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. --Shak. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, originally "playing at bowls ," verbal noun from bowl (v.). Bowling alley is from 1550s.
Usage examples of bowling.
Because of peole dropping bowling balls onto freeways, we have fences anclosing highway overpasses.
Since then, restaurants, hotels, parks, movie theaters, stores, swimming pools, bowling alleys, and even business schools have been opened to Negroes.
The carriage was now bowling down the avenue at a trot, the greys arching their necks and stepping out handsomely.