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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
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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