Definition of Bowled

1. Adverb. (cricket) Describing the method of being dismissed in which the ball is bowled, and it hits and breaks the batsman's wicket. ¹

2. Verb. (past of bowl) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bowled

1. bowl [v] - See also: bowl

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowled

bowl-outs
bowl-shaped
bowl a googly
bowl barrow
bowl cut
bowl cuts
bowl of cherries
bowl out
bowl over
bowl pack
bowlder
bowlderisation
bowlderised
bowlders
bowldery
bowled (current term)
bowled out
bowleg
bowlegged
bowlegs
bowler
bowler-hatted
bowler hat
bowlers
bowless
bowlful
bowlfuls
bowlike
bowline
bowline knot

Literary usage of Bowled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"bowled FLOORS. In modern Protestant churches it is becoming the custom to pitch the floor so that it will be higher at the back of the audience-room than in ..."

2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"But he was a fino good fellow, the host, and as we bowled merrily along the well-paved road, passing all the lumbering market carts, ..."

3. A Whimsey Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1906)
"... bowled WHEN I, sir, play at cricket, sick it makes me feel; For I the wicket kick it backward with my heel. Then, oh! such rollers bowlers always give ..."

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