Crossword clues for bowls
bowls
- Pipe parts
- Game on a green
- Soup servings
- Cereal servings
- Soup dishes
- Plays ninepins
- New Year's games
- Cereal holders
- Tries to strike, perhaps
- TMBG "Nine ___ of Soup"
- Soups are served in them
- Soup kitchen stack
- Seeks a strike
- Rose, Cotton, etc
- Plays in an alley
- Picks up spares
- New Year's highlights
- New Year's events
- Last college football games
- Important college football games
- Dishes for cereals
- Consomme orders
- Chili containers
- Cereal is served in them
- Plays in alleys, maybe
- Theme of this puzzle
- What the starts of 20- and 53-Across and 11- and 29-Down are
- Starts of 21- and 53-Across and 3- and 30-Down
- Some New Year's Day TV fare
- Plays tenpins
- Gets the ball rolling?
- Soup holders
- Big New Year's Day events
- Lawn bowling at a jack using biased wooden balls
- Jan. 1 game sites
- January 1 events
- Rose and Orange
- Rose, Cotton, etc.
- Stadiums
- Orange and Peach
- Some championship games
- Gets out dishes
- Crockery in which to serve game?
- Couch potato carrying wife around for sociable sport
- What the starts of 20- an
- Starts of 21- and 53-Acro
- Flipping layabout drinking whiskey in basins
- Trunks, we hear, in which Jack's the centre of attention
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowls \Bowls\ (b[=o]lz), n. pl. See Bowl, a ball, a game.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
game played with balls, mid-15c. (implied in bowlyn), from gerund of bowl "wooden ball" (early 15c.), from Old French bole (13c., Modern French boule) "ball," ultimately from Latin bulla "bubble, knob, round thing" (see bull (n.2)).\nNoon apprentice ... [shall] play ... at the Tenys, Closshe, Dise, Cardes, Bowles nor any other unlawfull game. [Act 11, Henry VII, 1495]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of bowl English) 2 A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do. 3 A ball used in the game of bowls vb. (en-third-person singular of: bowl)
WordNet
n. lawn bowling at a jack using biased wooden balls
Wikipedia
Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green which may be flat (for "flat-green bowls") or convex or uneven (for " crown green bowls"). It is normally played outdoors (although there are many indoor venues) and the outdoor surface is either natural grass, artificial turf, or cotula (in New Zealand).
Usage examples of "bowls".
Sacred terraced basket bowls for medicine flour or meal, carried by chief priests of sacred dancers.
Large bread bowls, with elaborate cloud decoration and figure of sky combined.
Tightly woven waterproof baskets and wooden bowls were filled with water, and then hot stones were added.
With dignified formality, the bowls were exchanged, then Mog-ur led the way as the men retreated into the small cave.
Molluscs and crustaceans were collected for ladles, spoons, bowls, and cups, as well as for their succulent morsels.
In the beginning, Ayla just followed Iza around and watched while they skinned animals, cured hides, stretched thongs cut in one spiral piece from a single hide, wove baskets, mats, or nets, gouged bowls out of logs, gathered wild foods, prepared meals, preserved meat and plant food for winter, and responded to the wishes of any man who called upon them to perform a service.
She could gouge bowls out of sections of logs and smooth them to a fine finish.
She had always kept herself clean, washing herself and her hair in the stream to keep it free of lice, even bringing in large bowls of snow to set beside the constantly burning fire to melt for fresh water in winter.
The blood was collected in bowls, and after the mog-urs made symbolic gestures over it, the acolytes passed through the crowd holding the vessels to the mouth of each member of their clan.
That was the signal for the other women to begin heaping platters of wood and bone and filling large bowls with the food they had labored so long to prepare.
Acolytes moved among the men with bowls of datura tea, and soon they were moving to the heavy beat.
Ayla and the medicine women carried their bowls to the waiting women and gave controlled amounts of the liquid to them and the older girls.
She scrambled through bone platters and wooden bowls holding the remains of the feast congealed in them, searching for the treasured container.
She wove new baskets and mats, made wooden bowls and platters, containers of stiff rawhide or birchbark, made new wraps, cured and dressed new furs, then made leggings, hats, hand and foot coverings for the next winter.
With a word or a wink, cups and bowls were swiftly filled and loose order maintained within the rowdy precinct of the inn.