BOWLS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bowls mean? 

• BOWLS (noun)
  The noun BOWLS has 1 sense:

1. a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack

  Familiarity information: BOWLS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOWLS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bowls; lawn bowling

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)

 Context examples 

Out of the black shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of the metal pipes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was oppressed throughout the meal by the thought of finger-bowls.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Jack ashore, you know. It's not them I mind; it's the round-shot. Carpet bowls! My lady's maid couldn't miss. Tell us, squire, when you see the match, and we'll hold water.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The path which the young clerk had now to follow lay through a magnificent forest of the very heaviest timber, where the giant bowls of oak and of beech formed long aisles in every direction, shooting up their huge branches to build the majestic arches of Nature's own cathedral.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had a young friend who set up housekeeping with six sheets, but she had finger bowls for company and that satisfied her, said Mrs. March, patting the damask tablecloths, with a truly feminine appreciation of their fineness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

A pair of stage "twins"—who turned out to be the girls in yellow—did a baby act in costume and champagne was served in glasses bigger than finger bowls.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)