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Bowler1. World English Historical Dictionary

Bowler1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bowler1 [f. BOWL v. + -ER1.]

1   1.  One who bowls; one who plays at bowls.

2 c. 1500.  Cocke Lorelles B. (1843), 11. Bowlers, mas shoters, and quayters.

3 1609.  B. Jonson, Sil. Wom., I. i. (1616), 531. Every bowler, or better o’ the greene.

4 1707.  Farquhar, Beaux’ Strat., I. i. 4. A profess’d Pick-pocket, and a good Bowler.

5 1801.  Strutt, Sports & Past., III. vii. 236. Modern bowlers have usually three or four [bowls].

6   2.  Cricket. The player who bowls or ‘delivers’ the ball at the wicket.

7 1755.  [see BOWL v. 4].

8 1770.  J. Love, Cricket, 15. Hodswell, of Dartford … celebrated Bowler.

9 1848.  Thackeray, Van. Fair, xiii. He … was the best batter and bowler, out and out, of the regimental club.

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