Bowl: Definition and part of speech

Bowl

  1. n. The game of tenpins or bowling.
  2. n. A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
  3. n. Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
  4. n. The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
  5. n. The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
  6. n. 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.
  7. n. An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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