Bowlful


as much as a bowl can hold:
He ate two bowlfuls of soup.
Contemporary Examples

Jon Stewart and ‘Meet The Press’ Would Have Been One Unhappy Marriage Lloyd Grove October 8, 2014

Historical Examples

Original Short Stories, Volume 7 (of 13) Guy de Maupassant
The Crimson Fairy Book Various
Our Journey to the Hebrides Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford’s Laura Lee Hope
From Sea to Sea Rudyard Kipling
Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various
How I Found Livingstone Henry M. Stanley
The Second Violin Grace S. Richmond
Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford’s Laura Lee Hope

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    any of several games in which players standing at one end of an alley or green roll balls at standing objects or toward a mark at the other end, especially a game in which a heavy ball is rolled from one end of a wooden alley at wooden pins set up at the opposite end. […]

  • Bowling-alley

    a long, narrow wooden lane or alley, for the game of tenpins. a building or enclosed area containing a number of such lanes or alleys. Historical Examples The Life of King Edward VII J. Castell Hopkins A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 (of 15) Robert Dodsley Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume […]

  • Bowling-bag

    a bag for carrying a bowling ball and often bowling shoes or other equipment.

  • Bowling-ball

    a round, heavy ball for bowling, usually made of hard rubber or plastic, with holes drilled into it for the bowler’s thumb and two fingers.

  • Bowling-crease

    either of two lines, each with a wicket set lengthwise at the center, marking the limit of a bowler’s approach in delivering the ball to the opposite wicket. Historical Examples Every Boy’s Book: A Complete Encyclopdia of Sports and Amusements Various noun (cricket) a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not […]


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