Found 1 items, similar to To bowl.
English → English (gcide) Definition: To bowl Bowl \Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowling.] 1. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. [1913 Webster] Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road. [1913 Webster] 3. To pelt or strike with anything rolled. [1913 Webster] Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnips? --Shak. [1913 Webster] To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling. [1913 Webster]