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LAWN BOWLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lawn bowling mean?
• LAWN BOWLING (noun)
The noun LAWN BOWLING has 1 sense:
1. a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
Familiarity information: LAWN BOWLING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
bowls; lawn bowling
Hypernyms ("lawn bowling" is a kind of...):
bowling (a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them)
Meronyms (parts of "lawn bowling"):
bowl (a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling)
jack (a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling)
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