bowls
pronunciation
How to pronounce bowls in British English:
UK ['bəʊls]
How to pronounce bowls in American English:
US ['boʊls]
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- Noun:
- lawn bowling at a jack using biased wooden balls
Word Origin
- bowls (n.)
- game played with balls, mid-15c. (implied in bowlyn), from gerund of bowl "wooden ball" (early 15c.), from Old French bole (13c., Modern French boule) "ball," ultimately from Latin bulla "bubble, knob, round thing" (see bull (n.2)). Noon apprentice ... [shall] play ... at the Tenys, Closshe, Dise, Cardes, Bowles nor any other unlawfull game. [Act 11, Henry VII, 1495]
Example
- 1. The average shark stretches to about 10 bowls of soup .
- 2. He put the bowls on the table .
- 3. Use smaller plates and bowls to control your portion sizes .
- 4. Halfway through the political discussion , ceramic bowls were brought in .
- 5. We watched entranced as dozens of bowls were laid out .