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bowl1 1. Chiefly US a bowl-shaped building or other structure, such as a football stadium or amphitheatre 2. a bowl-shaped depression of the land surface bowl2 1. a wooden ball used in the game of bowls, having flattened sides, one side usually being flatter than the other in order to make it run on a curved course 2. a large heavy ball with holes for gripping with the fingers and thumb, used in tenpin bowling How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Then they brought him a wooden bowl for a few half-pence, out of which he had to eat. Hill-food is very simple, but with buckwheat and Indian corn, and rice and red pepper, and little fish out of the stream in the valley, and honey from the flue-like hives built in the stone walls, and dried apricots, and turmeric, and wild ginger, and bannocks of flour, a devout woman can make good things, and it was a full bowl that the priest carried to the Bhagat. A MAN to Whom Time Was Money, and who was bolting his breakfast in order to catch a train, had leaned his newspaper against the sugar- bowl and was reading as he ate. |
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