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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them;

2. (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman;

3. the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bowl \Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowling.] 1. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. [1913 Webster] Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road. [1913 Webster] 3. To pelt or strike with anything rolled. [1913 Webster] Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnips? --Shak. [1913 Webster] To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bowling \Bowl"ing\, n. The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. [1913 Webster] Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bowling n 1: a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them 2: (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman 3: the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc