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bowls Definition

bowls (bōlz)

noun

lawn bowling

bowls Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • green: Facilities include indoor and outdoor bowls greens, a gym, and children's play area.
  • club: The type of mower thatâs popular with bowls clubs, it gives a professional touch to the domestic lawn.
bowls Quotes

If the wild bowler thinks he bowls Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled, They know not, poor misguided souls, They too shall perish unconsoled. I am the batsman and the bat, I am the bowler and the ball, The umpire, the pavilion cat, The roller, pitch, and stumps and all. See Emerson 313:39.

—Lang, Andrew

  Bowls is a young man's game which old men can play.

—Bryant, David

All thy brim-filled bowls of fierce desire

—Crashaw, Richard

It's naked child against hungry wolf; it's playing bowls upon a splitting wreck; it's walking on a string across a gulf with millstones fore-and-aft about your neck; but the thing is daily done by manyand many a one; and we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck.

—Davidson,John

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