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| Date: | 1400-1500 |
| Origin: | bowl 'ball used in bowling' (15-21 centuries), from Old French boule, from Latin bulla 'bubble' |
Related topics:1 [intransitive and transitive]DS to roll a ball along a surface when you are playing the game of bowls
2 [intransitive and transitive]DSC
a) to throw a ball at the batsman (=the person who hits the ball) in cricket [↪ bat]
b) [transitive] to make a batsman have to leave the field by throwing a ball so that it hits the wicket behind him
3 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to travel along very quickly and smoothly
bowl somebody ↔ out
phrasal verbDSC in cricket, when a team is bowled out, each member of the team has had to leave the field and there is no one left to bat
bowl somebody ↔ over
phrasal verb1 to accidentally hit someone and knock them down because you are running in a place that is full of people or things [= knock over]
2 to surprise, please, or excite someone very much [= knock out]: 
He was bowled over by her beauty.
He was bowled over by her beauty.