lawn bowling
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lawn bowling — n. a game played on a smooth lawn with wooden balls, which are rolled to stop as near as possible to a target ball (the jack) … English World dictionary
lawn bowling — lawn .bowling n [U] AmE a game played on grass in which you try to roll a big ball as near as possible to a smaller ball British Equivalent: bowls … Dictionary of contemporary English
lawn bowling — lawn ,bowling noun uncount AMERICAN a game in which players roll balls across the ground, trying to get as close as possible to a small ball called the jack … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
lawn bowling — noun a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack • Syn: ↑bowls • Hypernyms: ↑bowling • Part Meronyms: ↑bowl, ↑jack * * * noun [noncount] US : a game in which wooden balls are rolled across … Useful english dictionary
lawn bowling — lawn′ bowl ing n. spo a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one s ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green Also called bowl II, 3) •… … From formal English to slang
lawn bowling — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one s ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Cf.… … Universalium
lawn bowling — noun Date: circa 1929 a bowling game played on a green with wooden balls which are rolled at a jack … New Collegiate Dictionary
Lawn Bowling — Bowls Spielfeld Bowlsspieler in Aktion Bowls ist ein britisches Kugelspiel. Das Wort bowls ist der englische Ausdruck für „Kugeln … Deutsch Wikipedia
lawn bowling — noun North American term for bowls … English new terms dictionary
lawn bowling — noun (U) AmE a game played on grass in which you try to roll a big ball as near as possible to a smaller ball called the jack 1 (5); bowls BrE … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
