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单词 bowler
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bowlern.1

Brit. /ˈbəʊlə/, U.S. /ˈboʊlər/
Etymology: < bowl v.1 + -er suffix1.
1. One who bowls; one who plays at bowls.
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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.
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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

Brit. /ˈbəʊlə/, U.S. /ˈboʊlər/
Etymology: < bowl n.1 or bowl v.2 + -er suffix1.
1. A deep drinker; a drunkard: see boller n. 1.
2. A workman who shapes the bowl of a spoon.
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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

Brit. /ˈbəʊlə/, U.S. /ˈboʊlər/
Etymology: < bowl n.2, quasi bowl-hat.
colloquial.
a. A low-crowned stiff felt hat, a ‘billy-cock’. Also bowler-hat.
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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.
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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.
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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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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