单词 | bowler |
释义 | bowlern.1 1. One who bowls; one who plays at bowls. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > player bowler?1518 timber-turner1599 sidesman1843 ground-bowler1874 soft second1905 ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.j Bowlers mas shoters and quayters. 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. i, in Wks. I. 531 Euery bowler, or better o' the greene. View more context for this quotation 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 4 A profess'd Pick-pocket, and a good Bowler. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. 236 Modern bowlers have usually three or four [bowls]. 2. Cricket. The player who bowls or ‘delivers’ the ball at the wicket. Also bowler's (or bowlers') match: a cricket match in which the bowling is superior to the batting; bowler's wicket: one more favourable to the bowler than to the batter. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > bowler bowler1722 trundler1871 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > cricket-match > types of match county match1748 test match1857 bowler's (or bowlers') match1863 goose match1885 cricket test1907 test1908 runathon1932 one-dayer1985 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] > surface of ground > types of batsman's wicket1876 bowler's wicket1876 shirt front1893 sticky dog1904 sticky1936 turning pitch1956 belter1983 1722 Weekly Jrnl. 21 July 2296/1 The Taylor was a good bowler. 1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket ii. 15 Hodswell, of Dartford in Kent, Tanner; celebrated Bowler. 1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 581/1 The bowler..when he has bowl'd one ball or more, shall bowl to the number four before he changes wickets, and he shall change but once in the same innings. 1795 S. Britcher Compl. List Grand Matches Cricket 34 This rule is not meant..to prevent the Bowler from filling up holes, watering his ground, or using sawdust, &c., when the ground is wet. 1816 W. Lambert Instr. & Rules Cricket 22 Very few Bowlers run alike before the delivery of the Ball. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiii. 104 He..was the best batter and bowler, out and out, of the regimental club. 1863 Baily's Monthly Mag. Aug. 360 It was a bowlers' match all through. 1876 Baily's Monthly Mag. June 415 Much..will depend on..whether it is a batsman's or a bowler's wicket on the day of the match. 1888 Sat. Rev. 2 Sept. 312/2 It was clearly to be a bowler's match. 1895 Badminton Mag. Aug. 132 Any one can bowl on a bowler's wicket. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bowlern.2 2. A workman who shapes the bowl of a spoon. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of domestic utensils > [noun] > maker of spoons spooner?1518 bowler1879 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 413/2 The ‘bowler’ who domes up the broad end into the semblance of a bowl. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bowlern.3 colloquial. a. A low-crowned stiff felt hat, a ‘billy-cock’. Also bowler-hat. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > felt > bowler hat pot hat1580 hard hat1845 plug hat1860 bowler1861 billycock1862 boxer1863 bullycock1865 Christy1869 Christy stiff1882 hard hitter1883 pea-dodgera1914 blocker1934 dut1939 bun hat1941 1861 Sat. Rev. 21 Sept. 297 We are informed that he..wore, or rather carried in his hand, a white bowler hat. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxi. 158 The Ministers, in bowlers and pea-jackets, are to be found upon the shore of highland lochs. b. figurative. As a symbol of civilian life (as opposed to service in the armed forces), or of the process of demobilization. Hence bowler-hatting. Occasionally in extended use, with reference to dismissal. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > civilian life > [noun] > symbol of bowler1925 society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > discharge from service > [noun] cassation1602 exauctorationa1654 muster out1889 general discharge1947 bowler-hatting1953 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 34 To be given one's bowler, to be demobilised and returned to civil life. 1928 ‘I. Hay’ Poor Gentleman iv. 74 Nelson and Trafalgar put the bowler hat on that scheme. 1931 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 (ed. 3) 287 Bowler, to be given one's, to be demobilized. Bowler Hat, to get a, to be sent home, to be ‘sacked’. Officers' slang; applied only to major and higher officers. 1953 Economist 8 Aug. 372/1 Little has been said..to suggest that the settlers have any agreed programme to offer—beyond the ‘bowler-hatting’ of colonial civil servants of whom they have made scapegoats. 1959 Observer 4 Jan. 11/3 He [sc. Lord Mountbatten] did not ask for his bowler hat when Mr. Sandys reorganised defence a short time ago. Derivatives bowler-hatted adj. (a) wearing a bowler-hat; (b) civilian, demobilized. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > civilian life > [adjective] civil1541 unmilitary1713 non-military1738 civilian1817 bowler-hatted1909 civvy1915 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a hat > types of flat-headed1667 straw-hattedc1730 beavered1742 cocked-hatted1821 slouch-hatted1826 high-hatted1858 plug-hatted1869 sun-helmeted1886 pot-hatted1888 sou'-westered1891 cowboy-hatted1896 sombreroed1899 top hat1902 picture-hatted1906 bowler-hatted1909 sailor-hatted1909 tile-hatted1924 Stetsoned1935 trilbied1966 trilby-hatted1975 1909 M. Beerbohm Yet Again 47 I picture him frock-coated, bowler-hatted, and evidently nervous. 1950 E. Hyams From Waste Land 16 The bowler-hatted City gent. 1959 Economist 30 May 841/2 Those warriors who want to spend vastly more on defence are mostly either bowler-hatted or arm-chairborne. 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