bowlerbowl‧er /ˈbəʊlə $ ˈboʊlər/ noun [countable] 
a player in cricket who throws the ball at a batsman2 (also bowler hat British English) a hard round black hat that businessmen sometimes wear SYN derby American English
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- As a bowler at Middlesex, Tuffers has a great tradition to live up to.
- Brown would be the brave choice; he's now reckoned to be the more penetrating bowler.
- Can it really be only 18 months ago that the Surrey opening bowler was dispatching Martin Crowe in successive one-day internationals?
- I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat.
- In any case, let's adjust the mundane balance of recent decades and start with the slow bowlers.
- Three needed to take the lead: young fast bowler Royden Hayes, till then victimless, skittled Priest.
- Yet the bowlers defended well, and only Richardson mastered them so that the closing overs were tense.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1 (=wearing a bowler hat, top hat etc)
a bowler-hatted gentleman
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE a bowler-hatted gentleman· Three needed to take the lead: young fast bowler Royden Hayes, till then victimless, skittled Priest.· If Glenn McGrath, arguably currently the world's finest fast bowler, drops a short one, cut or hook him.· The man Kelly was more a fast bowler than a darts player.· He's our fast bowler, you know - took seven of your wickets last year.· I am already one down to Imran, having declared that Waqar did not have the action of a genuine fast bowler.· Again, their fast bowlers put in decisive performances.· Next to pull out was Surrey fast bowler Martin Bicknell, who dislocated his shoulder in training.· If they are really fast, the bowler may have a chance to hit the wicket before the batter returns.
· And he is a marginally better bowler than Hick even if he's still seeking his first Test wicket.· Don't worry if you fall a bit short of the target, even the best bowlers find this a challenge!!· Their hopes could rest on the performance of the country's best bowler: Courtney Walsh.
· Aqib Javed, a vastly improved bowler in the last year, was perfect as a back-up to the two great bowlers.· All this proves conclusively that Waqar and Akram are genuinely great and exceptional bowlers.
· Andrew Evans is ruled out along with quick bowler Robert Jones.· Promising quick bowler Martin Howie returns and Paul Johnson also earns a recall.
· In any case, let's adjust the mundane balance of recent decades and start with the slow bowlers.· Another slow bowler, though one with infinitely more experience, is Worcestershire's Richard Illingworth.· Outright batsmen joined the queue, and the supposedly slow bowlers were marking out what looked like suspiciously long run-ups.· Yorkshire cricket has been graced with world-class slow bowlers.
· Gloucestershire's top bowler makes another comeback.
· Three needed to take the lead: young fast bowler Royden Hayes, till then victimless, skittled Priest.· McClure played every shot in the book over the two days, and is quickly maturing into Ireland's finest young bowler.
NOUN· I like classic hats - this baseball cap, for instance, or a bowler hat.· He wore a trim bowler hat and an overcoat.· There were men in frock coats and bowler hats.· He found Woodruffe with a tall, one-armed man in a raincoat and a bowler hat.· His bowler hat is pushed way back on his head; his hands are thrust into his jacket.· It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath.· I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat.
· The pace bowlers capitalised during the abbreviated first day, even if the close catchers didn't.· Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them.· Bob Woolmer, the county's director of coaching, claims the pace bowler was used unnecessarily in the World Cup.· Kent had expressed interest in the pace bowler.
· The visitors made 91-9 and Newtown spin bowler Keith Harding took 7 wickets for 41.· A nimble slip fielder and occasional spin bowler, he played for Suffolk in 1938 and 1939 after leaving Hampshire.· Throughout the 1930s he emerged as one of the classic left-hand spin bowlers of all time.
· Graham Dilley had rather supplanted him as main strike bowler, and Chris Old was a Headingley type of bowler.· Scarborough festival when they omitted their leading strike bowlers.· Fellow strike bowler Donald was rested yesterday.
VERB· Bob Matthews was the pick of the Talybont bowlers taking 1-12 while John Wheeler grabbed 2-47.· Gloucester bowler Davies took five for eighty four.· The visitors made 91-9 and Newtown spin bowler Keith Harding took 7 wickets for 41.· No bowler may ever again take 200 wickets.· McDermott finished with 4-66, while fellow fast bowler Merv Hughes took 3-51.· Read in studio Cricket ... Gloucestershire fast bowler Courtney Walsh has taken his fiftieth wicket of the season.
a player in cricket who throws the ball at a batsman2 (also bowler hat British English) a hard round black hat that businessmen sometimes wear SYN derby American English