What does bowls mean?
Definitions for bowls
bowls
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Princeton's WordNet
lawn bowling, bowlsnoun
a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
Wiktionary
bowlsnoun
A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.
bowlsnoun
A ball used in the game of bowls
Wikipedia
Bowls
Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-green bowls") or convex or uneven (for "crown green bowls"). It is normally played outdoors (although there are many indoor venues) and the outdoor surface is either natural grass, artificial turf or cotula (in New Zealand).
ChatGPT
bowls
Bowls are round open-top containers, typically made of ceramic, glass, plastic or metal, used to hold a variety of foods or liquids for serving or consuming. They can also refer to a recreational competitive sport played on a flat green surface. The term can also refer to a portion of things held by such a container or the container itself.
Webster Dictionary
Bowls
see Bowl, a ball, a game
Wikidata
Bowls
Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a pitch which may be flat or convex or uneven. It is normally played outdoors although there are some indoor venues and the surface is either natural grass, artificial turf, or cotula.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BOWLS
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bowls is ranked #83541 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Bowls surname appeared 225 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bowls.
62.6% or 141 total occurrences were White.
27.1% or 61 total occurrences were Black.
6.6% or 15 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Anagrams for bowls »
blows
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bowls in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bowls in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of bowls in a Sentence
War poisons the land/ Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
It was pretty easy. My parents went to the lawn bowls on Monday. My son went to the athletics on Tuesday and we have come for the netball, it has been good.
I was with him all night (since his rescue), he ate six bowls of soup last night. He kept thanking me.
Super Bowl I's how cavalier both CBS and NBC were about it, now, the last eight Super Bowls are the eight most watched programs in the history of American television.
We have bowl partnerships with our six playoff bowls, every conference has affiliations with its own set of bowls and there are contracts that are in place already, we're just past halfway under our current 12-year contract. What are all the legal issues that have to be addressed from that standpoint? We have a media partner right now, ESPN, and so ... how does this impact that relationship with that particular provider, not only for the balance of the contract, but beyond.
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