bowled

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊld/, /bɔʊld/
  • (US) IPA(key): /boʊld/
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  • Rhymes: -əʊld
  • Homophone: bold

Verb

bowled

  1. simple past and past participle of bowl

Adjective

bowled (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly in combination) Having a bowl or bowl-shaped element.
    • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:
      a large brown-stemmed silver-bowled pipe
  2. (cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.

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