bowl
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
Noun 4 meanings
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
“You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.”
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl.
“Dig out a bowl in the ground.”
The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
The action of bowling a ball.
Verb 4 meanings
To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
To play bowling or a similar game.
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
“We were bowled rapidly along the road.”
Etymology
From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).
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BOWL at a glance
BOWL has 4 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (B 3 + O 1 + W 4 + L 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,277 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with bowl
All rhymes- HOWL10
- GROWL9
- FOWL10
- WATERFOWL18
- COWL9
- PROWL10
- SCOWL10
- FISHBOWL19
- PUNCHBOWL21
- JOWL14
- WILDFOWL18
- PEAFOWL15
One letter away
- BOIL6
- BOWS9
- HOWL10
- FOWL10
- COWL9
- BOLL6
- BOOL6
- BAWL9
- JOWL14
- YOWL10
- NOWL7
- BOWR9
- SOWL7
- GOWL8
- DOWL8
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