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Type of hat
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bowler
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Bowler was a short-lived British Sitcom which originally aired on ITV in a single series of 13 episodes between 29 July and 21 October 1973. A situation-comedy, it was a spin-off from The Fenn Street Gang featuring George Baker as East End criminal Stanley ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket rolls balls down an alley at pins a hat that is round and black and hard with a narrow brim; worn by some British businessmen [syn: bowler hat , derby , plug hat ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"hard round hat," 1861, said to be from a J. Bowler , 19c. London hat manufacturer. A John Bowler of Surrey, hat manufacturer, was active from the 1820s to the 1840s, and a William Bowler, hat-manufacturer, of Southwark Bridge Road, Surrey, sought a patent ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowler \Bowl"er\, n. One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
Usage examples of bowler.
They were walking along, Zero and Bowler and Angie and Cisco, looking for a way out of the sticky-hot Manhattan night and into something sufficiently distracting.
Zero and Cisco and Bowler and Angie and the others sank quickly into sticky white stuff, sank up to their chins.
He smiled at Zero and Bowler as they sat directly across from him to the right of the door.
Zero and Bowler stepped out into the courtyard and paused to look around.
Looking hastily away, Zero followed Bowler across the courtyard to the weapons rack.
Holding it in both hands, he followed Bowler past the guard, out the gate.
Here, Bowler explained, was the Neutral, where goods were bartered, defense alliances forged, conspiracies birthed, feuds resolved, curiosity sated, and contracts for joint expeditions made.
Zero looked at Bowler, who nodded gravely as he bit into a pear himself.
Swanee noticed the one they called Bowler at the far side of the courtyard from the musicians, talking to a group of six human settlers.
But there was some interference from this fellow Bowler, who, with an ironic aptness, seems to regard you as an imperialist.
Swanee saw the one called Bowler, then, emerging from the crowd, pushing to the front.
There was murmuring in the crowd, some supportive of Bowler, much of it hostile to him.
Among them was Bowler, who perhaps saw an opportunity for revolution in the installation of a proper dictator.
One of the women had escaped and run to Bowler, and Bowler had called the meeting to decide how best to help her.
From behind the Twists, escorted by two Pragmatics who kept it between them bound in thick crude-iron chains, stepped something that looked to Bowler like a giant tortoise, almost eight feet high, six wide.