bowlingn.
/ˈbəʊlɪŋ/ 1. Playing at bowls; the action of rolling a bowl or other round body.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun]
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1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII xxv Any open plaieng house or place for common bowling.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xxix. 173 Bowling is good for the Stone and Raines.
?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. vi. 66 They go to Shooting or Bowling, as soon as Afternoon Service is done.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. 235.
1879 Daily News 2 Sept. 3/1 Bowling was at all times a mild species of recreation.
2. Cricket.
a. The action of ‘delivering’ the ball.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun]
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trundling1861
1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 581/1 The bowling-creases must be cut in a direct line from each stump.
1859 All Year Round 23 July 306 Jim..go in: cut over the slow bowling.
1879 Sat. Rev. 5 July 21 Oxford was once more aided by the bowling of Mr. Jellicoe.
b. The strength or resources of the bowlers in a cricket team.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > bowler > bowling strength of team
bowling1845
1845 W. Denison Cricketer's Compan. 1844 p. viii Their great deficiency..is in bowling.
1893 R. Daft Kings of Cricket xiii. 234 Surrey..possesses plenty of bowling and of quite the best quality.
c. figurative.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words
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assaultc1449
battery1562
onset1566
brash1573
breach1578
onslaught1613
onfall1646
attack1653
assay?1705
to return to the charge1752
arietation1797
set-to1808
set1829
dead set1835
go-in1858
on-ding1871
hatchet work1938
blitzkrieg1939
blitz1940
carpet bombing1956
bowling1959
1959 Listener 6 Aug. 222/2 A Minister at question time trying to stand up to accurate opposition bowling.
Compounds
C1. bowling-day, bowling-ground, bowling-night.
C2.
bowling analysis n. a statement of a bowler's performance record (overs and maiden overs bowled, runs conceded, wickets taken, etc.).
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1879 Times 1 July 11/2 Bowling analysis—Mr. Steel, 42 overs and 2 balls, 43 runs, four wickets; Mr. Morton, 27 overs, 38 runs, one wicket, one no ball, [etc.].
1985 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 4 Jan. [He] has taken 15 wickets at 38.33. That bowling analysis may not flatter him, but he has played three games on the dormant MCG wicket.
bowling-crease n. the line from behind which the bowler ‘delivers’ the ball in cricket.
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1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 581/1 The bowling-creases must be cut in a direct line from each stump.
1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 581/1 If he delivers the ball with his hinder foot over the bowling-crease, the umpire shall call no ball.
1880 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 105 Within the return-crease..and behind the bowling-crease, the bowler must stand when he delivers the ball.
bowling saloon n. U.S. a building equipped with bowling-alleys.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > building
bowling saloon1842
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. vi. 208 A painted lamp directs you to the Bowling Saloon, or Ten-Pin alley.
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bowling action n. Cricket the manner in which a bowler delivers the ball, sometimes esp. with regard to whether it is within the rules or spirit of the game.
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1875 Newtonian Nov. 21 His bowling action is too laborious to be successful.
1930 Manch. Guardian 21 Jan. 10/4 One imagines that the former culprit will take very good care that his bowling action is above suspicion.
2007 Wisden Cricketer July 23/1 But with Malinga's side-arm bowling action, the ball is released spinning in a near-vertical axis, like a spin bowler.
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bowling bag n. originally U.S. a bag in which balls and other equipment for ten-pin bowling are carried, typically a brightly coloured plastic or leather zip-up holdall of roughly semi-circular shape with one or two short handles at its top; (also) a smaller fashion handbag of similar shape.
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1938 A.B.C. Bull. 16 Sept. 18/1 (advt.) Our new Bowling Ball Bag Catalogue.]
1939 A.B.C. Bull. 16 Mar. 2/1 (advt.) Brunswick Brown Beauty Bowling Bags.
1975 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 6 Apr. 7 c/3 When they bowl in the rolloffs each contestant will be presented with a Brunswick bowling bag as the prize for gaining the finals.
2000 Elle Sept. 339/2 Products..are individually wrapped in waterproof packaging so they won't leak in your must-have bowling bag.
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