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n. A game played by rolling a ball down a wooden alley in order to knock down a triangular group of ten pins. Also called tenpins.

n. A similar game, such as duckpins or ninepins.

n. Lawn bowling.

n. The playing of one of these games.

v. Present participle of bowl.

n. A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling

n. candlepin bowling

n. Several similar games played indoors or outdoors.

n. The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.

n. A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.

n. The action of the verb bowl.

n. The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.

n. In dyeing, the washing of fabrics by passing them over rollers in a vessel of water.

n. The act of playing with or at bowls.

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

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

n. the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc

"So, pride be damned, he takes gigs in bowling alleys and nowheresville bars and clubs."

playing   

length bowling    break bowling    crown green bowling    skittles    ninepins    lawn bowls    boules    bowls   

bowl    bowler   

ten-pin bowling    bowling green    bowling alley    bowling ball   

bowl   

bolling    cajoling    consoling    controlling    doling    enrolling    extolling    foaling    growling    holing