Crossword clues for bowler
bowler
- Hat left in shady spot
- Hard hat
- Delivery man's hat
- Type of hat
- Hat type
- Alley competitor
- Strike seeker
- Cricket figure
- Alley athlete
- She likes strikes
- One unhappy about a split
- One scoring strikes and spares
- One hanging out in an alley
- League member, often
- Hat (for cricketer?)
- Hard felt hat
- Athlete who tries to knock down tenpins
- Hat that may be tipped
- Derby hat
- One who hopes for strikes
- Striking player
- 83-Across topper
- 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
- British derby
- Topping for a toff
- Lane user
- Alley frequenter
- One taking over hat
- Sportsman left in enclosure
- British monarch keeps bird in hat
- British flyer let me see hat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowler \Bowl"er\, n. One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
Bowler \Bowl"er\, n. [From 2d Bowl.] A derby hat. [Eng.]
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 in 1854 for "improvements in hats and other coverings for the head." But perhaps the word is simply from bowl (n.); compare Old English heafodbolla "brainpan, skull." The earliest usages are with a lower-case b-.
"player at bowls," c.1500.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context bowling English) One who engages in the sport of bowling. 2 (context cricket English) The player currently bowling. 3 (context cricket English) A player selected mainly for his bowling ability. 4 (context baseball slang 1800s English) The pitcher. Etymology 2
n. A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessman.
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]
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Headwords:
Bowler
Wikipedia
Bowler may refer to:
- Bowler (surname), an English surname
- Bowler hat, a hard felt hat with a rounded crown
In arts and entertainment:
- Bowler (TV series), a 1973 British television series and spin off of The Fenn Street Gang
- Bowlers Exhibition Centre, a multi-use centre in Trafford, Greater Manchester, UK
- In The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., James "Lord Bowler" Lonefeather, a character
In sports and games:
- Bowler (cricket), a cricketer who delivers the ball to an opposing batsman
- Bowler (ten-pin), someone participating in the sport of bowling
- A participant in the sport of bowls
- In marbles, a ⅞ inch (22 mm) marble
Other uses:
- Bowler, Wisconsin
- Bowler Offroad, a maker of offroad vehicles
A bowler is someone participating in the sport of bowling, either as an amateur or professional. In American ten-pin bowling, a bowler is most commonly a member of a team of three to six people. Most bowling leagues limit the number of team members to five, with alternates available as needed.
Scoring a "Kegler" is 12 consecutive strikes in one game of bowling by one individual bowler, otherwise noted as a perfect game with a score of 300 (100% strikes).
There are a number of bowling tournaments held around the world, both large-scale international events and small local competitions. Professional bowlers in the USA are members of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA).
Bowler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Bertie Bowler, English footballer
- Bill Bowler, former Canadian ice hockey player
- George Bowler, English professional footballer
- Gerry Bowler (1919–2006), former Northern Irish footballer
- Grant Bowler, Australian actor
- Grant Bowler (baseball), Major League Baseball player
- Holden Bowler (1912–2001), American athlete, singer and businessman who served as the namesake for Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye
- J. Andrew Bowler (1862–1935), African American educator and Baptist minister
- James Bowler (1875–1957), US politician
- Jeff Bowler, American film and television producer
-
John Bowler (disambiguation), one of several people
- John Bowler (actor), an English actor in The Bill
- John Bowler (politician), Western Australian politician
- John Bowler (chairman), Chairman of English football club Crewe Alexandra
- Joseph Bowler, American artist and illustrator
- Larry Bowler, Republican politician from the State of California
- Michael Bowler, English football player
- Norman Bowler, British actor
- Peter Bowler, Australian lexicographer and author
- Peter J. Bowler, historian of biology
- Peter Bowler, English born Australian cricketer
- Phil Bowler, American jazz double-bassist
- Shirley D. Bowler, female Louisiana Republican legislator
- Thomas William Bowler (d. 1869), British landscape painter
- Tim Bowler, English writer for young adults
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 Bowler.
Released from prison after serving a prison sentence, Stanley Bowler sets about trying to 'better' himself. The basic premise of the series revolves around Bowler's attempts to develop (and to project to others) a more cultured personality, as he tries (but fails) to understand the fine arts, and to move into higher social circles.
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.