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BOWLS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
Synonyms:
bowls; lawn bowling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bowls" is a kind of...):
bowling (a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them)
Meronyms (parts of "bowls"):
bowl (a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling)
jack (a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb bowl
