Word Finder - bowls

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A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.

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As much as is held by a bowl.

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You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.

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A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.

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This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.

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A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.

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The round hollow part of anything.

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Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.

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A round crater (or similar) in the ground.

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An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.

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A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)

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The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.

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The action of bowling a ball.

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(in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.

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• lawn bowling
• lawn bowls

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To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.

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To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).

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To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

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We were bowled rapidly along the road.

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To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

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A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.

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A ball used in the game of bowls

People were eating bowls of soup.

She was stacking bowls on the table for ice cream and cake when lights turned into the drive.

I've already had three bowls of stew!

She pulled a couple of bowls out of the refrigerator.

An unfamiliar aroma greeted his nostrils as she poured broth, sharp with herbs, into the waiting bowls.

Simple pot pourri Put dried lavender buds in decorative bowls throughout your house.

Forms included sherds from bowls, jugs, tea pots, plates, cups, dishes, and large containers.

Now usually they have smaller urinal bowls for the kids.

Rob also makes lovely, traditional, scrying bowls.

Serve in small bowls to compensate for richness, or try serving in tiny cups as an amuse bouche.

John Lewis - John Lewis stock a massive range of items of all kinds including dinnerware, decorative bowls, dishes and cutlery.

Three bowls later, a new fan belt had appeared and we set off.

At fourteen I even feigned illness to watch World Championship Bowls instead of going to school.

Using individual crocks or bowls, spread the frozen green beans on the bottom.

All the dishes are served in huge brilliantly colored ceramic bowls of varying hues - I just love that sort of thing!

He had his own food and water bowls and devoured every morsel of food given him.

Bar snacks are available - our huge bowls of steaming mussels are legendary!

Pour into warmed bowls and sit the crisp pancetta on top.

Expressions in Wood I specialize in hand carving bowls, platters, dishes and abstract sculptures mostly from native grown hardwoods.

Season soup to taste and add sherry just before serving in heated soup bowls.

Similar brown stoneware bowls were in fashion at the end of the 19th century, being phased out in favor of white bowls.

These bowls provide a safe solution for capture or temporary storage of your prize Koi.

Outside on a veranda more chairs and tables were placed, upon which were small bowls of nuts, fruits and other sweetmeats.

You can enjoy playing snooker, darts or billiards, bowls, tennis or archery.

I have been turning bowls for the last eight years working with green wood and creating nearly translucent objects in this material.

Press the button to fill the bowls with tubby custard or pop up the tubby custard or pop up the tubby toast.

Press the button to fill the bowls with tubby custard or pop up the tubby toast.

Serve in individual bowls or a large tureen, leaving the liquid in the saucepan.

The AIR FLUSH ® urinal system is ideally suited to sites with multiple urinal system is ideally suited to sites with multiple urinal bowls and very heavy usage.

There were bowls, vases, cats, fish and mugs of various sorts.

Serve in warm bowls with a green salad dressed in mustard vinaigrette.

It is commonly supposed that by jactus lapidum Fitzstephen meant the game of bowls, but though it is possible that round stones may sometimes have been employed in an early variety of the game - and there is a record of iron bowls being used, though at a much later date, on festive occasions at Nairn, - nevertheless the inference seems unwarranted.

Bowls, at that date, was looked upon as a legitimate amusement for Sundays, - as, indeed, were many other sports.

After a long interval salvation came from Scotland, somewhat unexpectedly, because although, along with its winter analogue of curling, bowls may now be considered, much more than golf, the Scottish national game, it was not until well into the 19th century that the pastime acquired popularity in that country.

In the south of France it is rather popular with artisans, who, however, are content to pursue it on any flat surface and use round instead of biased bowls, the bowler, moreover, indulging in a preliminary run before delivering the bowl, after the fashion of a bowler in cricket.

But although the crown-green game is of a sporting character, it necessitates the use of bowls of narrow bias and affords but limited scope for the display of skill and science.

In the same way certain governments become famous for certain commodities, as Moscow for osier baskets, flower baskets, wicker furniture and lace; Kostroma for lace, wooden utensils, toys, wooden spoons, cups and bowls, bast sacks and mats, bast boots and garden products; Yaroslavl for furniture, brass samovars, saucepans, spurs, rings, &c.; Vladimir for furniture, osier baskets and flower-stands and sickles; NizhniyNovgorod for bast mats and sacks, knives, forks and scissors; Tver for lace, nails, sieves, anchors, fish-hooks, locks, coarse clay pottery, saddlery and harness, boots and shoes, and so on.

In a house, presenting no distinctive features whatsoever, one finds the decorator with a cupboard full of bowls and vases of glazed biscuit, which he adorns, piece by piece, using the simplest conceivable apparatus and a meagi-e supply of pigments.

A few chance finds of vases, inscriptions and coins; of a hoard of silver bowls at Dali (anc. Idalium) 7 in 1851; and of a bronze tablet with Phoenician and Cypriote bilingual inscriptions, 8 also at Dali, and about the same time, had raised questions of great interest as to the art and the language of the ancient inhabitants.

Artists worked with local schoolchildren to create tea bowls for a raku firing later in the year.

Serve in bowls with a few snipped chives to garnish.

Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with minced parsley or scallion.

Stir in the parsley, serve in warm bowls, and sprinkle with the Parmesan.

She used to stomp around, knocking bowls flying, splashing through the water bowls making an almighty mess !

They also get bowls of grated sugar beet soaked with warm water and other special feed.

The main courses came in little bowls on a great filigree brass pedestal dish which you cold rotate like a lazy susan.

The AIR FLUSH ® urinal system is ideally suited to sites with multiple urinal bowls and very heavy usage.

All parts are automatically fed from vibratory bowl feeder systems where box quantities of product are loosely tipped into the feeding bowls.

Drain the spaghetti thoroughly then stir into the sausage mixture and divide between warmed serving bowls.

These can be placed in wicker baskets or glass bowls.