The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowl \Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowling.]
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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; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
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To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnips?
--Shak.To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.
Usage examples of "to bowl".
As one of them rushed in, swinging its short-sword, the horse lashed backwards with both feet, killing the creature and tossing it into its fellows so as to bowl several of them to the ground.
There was no overlap of decoration from foot to bowl or from interior to exterior.
He climbed from bowl to bowl, intending when he got to the top to see whence he had come and whither he was bound.
A new experiment is to be tried this season, and she will be allowed to bowl for an odd five-minutes at the end of Dick’.