1. bowl - Noun
2. bowl - Verb
A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.
An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
The game of tenpins or bowling.
To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
To play with bowls.
To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
Source: Webster's dictionaryArranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space? D. T. Suzuki
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? Albert Einstein
It is only the water that is spilled; the bowl is not broken. Mauritania Proverb
Under his bowl there is a little bowl. Afghan Proverb
A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice. Chinese Proverb