bowler¹ Definition
bowler (bōl′ər)
noun
a person who bowls
bowler² Definition
bowler (-ər)
noun
Brit. a derby hat
Etymology: after J. Bowler, 19th-c. London hat manufacturer
bowler Usage Examples
Converse of object
- spin: Jenner is a complex character, as are most spin bowlers.
- wear: NOT wearing a bowler in the City of London in the forties would have been like not wearing a tie with a pinstripe.
- open: The winner of the bowling averages was opening bowler Brian Neat, who took 26 wickets for 148 runs.
- become: BAR 9 In 2004 who became the first spin bowler to take 500 test wickets?
Adjective modifier
- round-arm: A lower order right-hand batsman and a right-hand fast round-arm bowler who fielded mostly at point or slip.
- fast: Is a medium fast right hand bowler who played a number of games for the 2nd XI in 1981.
- right-hand: A lower order right-hand batsman and a right-hand fast round-arm bowler who fielded mostly at point or slip.
- slow: Left-arm slow bowler Ian Fisher has been added to the 11 players which were on duty for the drawn game against Kent in Bristol.
- one-day: Anyone feel Hoggard is still unproven as a one-day bowler?
- world-class: It's not a bad thing if a world-class bowler like Mushtaq is on at you all of the time.
Modifies a noun
hat: The stout man has thrown his hard bowler hat fully on his face.
Noun used with modifier
- fast-medium: John Lever John is the former Essex and England fast-medium bowler who played 21 Tests.
- left-arm: Slow left-arm bowlers have a tendency to be mavericks; erratic, not as bowlers, but in other ways.
- seam: Also in is Neston seam bowler Chris Finegan who played in the drawn game against Berkshire.
- spin: BAR 9 In 2004 who became the first spin bowler to take 500 test wickets?
- lob: The battle of the lob bowlers was joined again.
- pace: Kent are to open talks with Somerset pace bowler Richard Johnson about a possible move to the St Lawrence.
Possessives
- end: He finally gets ball in hand, and the only chance is to throw the stumps down at the bowler's end.
- head: The ball flew over the bowler's head, soaring higher and higher, so high it easily cleared the roofs of the school.
Preposition: in
cricket: For example, the bowler in cricket is restricted in how many innings he or she can bowl to avoid arm injury.
Browse dictionary entries near bowler
- ‹ bowlegged
- ‹ bowleg
- ‹ bowlder
- ‹ bowl over
- ‹ bowl along
- ‹ bowl
- ‹ bowknot
- ‹ bowing
- ‹ bowie knife
- ‹ Bowie, David real name David Robert Jones
- Bowles, Paul Frederick ›
- bowline ›
- bowling ›
- bowling alley ›
- bowling green ›
- bowls ›
- bowman ›
- bowshot ›
- bowsprit ›
- bowstring ›

