Bowling : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Bowling	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Bowling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bowling n a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bowl \Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bowling}.] 1. 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. 2. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road. 3. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. {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.