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bowl

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1. bowl - Noun

2. bowl - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

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Arranging 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

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