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say it: bohl
bowl is a noun and verb meaning "a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids". It is pronounced /ˈboʊl/ — bohl. It carries 12 recorded senses.
a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
the quantity contained in a bowl
a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
cricket
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bowl come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.