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bowl·ing green

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Bowling Greennoun

    a town in southern Kentucky

  2. bowling greennoun

    a field of closely mowed turf for playing bowls

Wiktionary

  1. bowling greennoun

    A finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of lawn for playing the game of bowls.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Bowling-greennoun

    A level piece of ground, kept smooth for bowlers.

    Etymology: from bowl and green.

    A bowl equally poised, and thrown upon a plain bowling-green, will run necessarily in a direct line. Richard Bentley.

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  1. bowling green

    A bowling green is a finely maintained, level grass lawn or field designed for the sport of lawn bowling or lawn bowls. It is usually divided into narrow playing strips referred to as rinks. The green is surrounded by a small ditch to collect balls that cross the boundary. The surface is maintained to be extremely smooth and even, ensuring that the bowls roll fluidly.

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  1. Bowling green

    A bowling green is a finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of lawn for playing the game of lawn bowls. Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep on them. The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299. When the French adopted "boulingrin" in the 17th century, it was understood to mean a sunk geometrically shaped piece of perfect grass, framed in gravel walks, which often formed the center of a regularly planted wood called a bosquet, somewhat like a highly formalized glade; it might have a central pool or fountain. The diarist Samuel Pepys relates a conversation he had with the architect Hugh May:

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bowling green in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bowling green in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of bowling green in a Sentence

  1. Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, television series:

    I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.

  2. Gerald Roark:

    Bowling Green residents quickly realized that it’s pretty tight and Bowling Green residents would n’t be able to raise the money, i ’m just hoping that someone will save it from the shredder.


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