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Meaning of bowls

- A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
- Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
- The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
- The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
- A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.
- An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
- The game of tenpins or bowling.
- To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- To play with bowls.
- To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
- To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
- See Bowl, a ball, a game.

Crossword clue for bowls

- Ball with a bias
- Basin
- Cup part
- Deep, round dish
- Deliver a cricket ball
- Deliver ball to container
- Dish causes blowout!
- Salver
- Throw ball to middle of cabin hooter
- Soup plates