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Bowling

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Narrower term 5

Bowls 76% connected

See Bowl, a ball, a game.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Chinaman 76% connected

A native of China; a Chinese.

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Ninepins 76% connected

A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.

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Skittles 76% connected

An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.

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Tenpins 76% connected

A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins.

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Broader term 3

Game 76% connected

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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Playing 76% connected

of Play

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Component part 3

Bowl 70% connected

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

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Frame 70% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Roll 70% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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