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(bowling) A split where the farthest-left and farthest-right pins are the only pins left standing.
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(bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
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(by extension) Any ball-like object that widely misses its intended target when thrown.
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(bowling) A rack for bowling balls at the start of a bowling lane, where the balls are transported after returning from the pinsetter.
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(transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
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A paste of clay or loam.
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A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling
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A building which contains lanes for bowling.
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(bowling) A solid ball used in the sport of bowling, with finger holes allowing it to be picked up.
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A club for people who play bowls.
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A finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of lawn for playing the game of bowls.
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(bowling) A kind of cylindrical tenpin used in a North American regional form of bowling.
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A type of bowling popular in New England.
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(bowling) Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
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(tennis) A soft drop shot.
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(pinball) A target which drops or is knocked over by the ball hitting it, often arranged in banks or sets of multiple adjacent drop targets.
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One who fields anything.
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(bowling) five-pin bowling (played only in Canada)
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Alternative spelling of fivepin bowling [A variation of the game of bowling (played exclusively in Canada), using five pins.]
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A variation of the game of bowling (played exclusively in Canada), using five pins.
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The game of fivepin bowling.
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(croquet) The slipping of the foot from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
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(bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
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(bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
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(bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
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(bowling) A ball that rolls into the gutter without striking any pins.
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(bowling, informal) Four consecutive strikes.
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(ten-pin bowling) The kingpin.
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(bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
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(snooker, pool) Of the cue ball: (going) into a pocket, after cannoning another ball.
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(US, dated) The game of bowling.
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(uncountable) A sport similar to baseball, where a ball is kicked rather than hit.
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The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
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(ten-pin bowling) The pin at the centre of the triangle of bowling pins (originally the tallest pin in kayles). Sometimes also the headpin at the apex.
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(bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
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(Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland) the game of road bowling
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(bowling) A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.
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(netball) A player in the midcourt.
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A shot in the game of croquet which consists of moving both the striker ball and the croqueted ball together at about the same distance and possibly having the striker ball move farther than the croqueted ball with the stroke.
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(sports) In baseball or bowling, a perfect game.
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(bowling) The section of the lane on which the pins are set.
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Alternative form of pinsetter [(bowling, originally) The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.]
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Alternative form of pinsetter [(bowling, originally) The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.]
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(bowling) The number of pins toppled by a bowler or bowling team during a game, tournament, career, or some other measured period.
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(bowling) The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.
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(bowling) The clearing and resetting of fallen pins in tenpin bowling.
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The act of throwing or casting.
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(bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
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(transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
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(tenpin bowling) A bowl where the ball skids a long way before it starts to roll.
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(countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
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(transitive) To fool or bamboozle.
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(bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
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(tenpin bowling) The situation where all ten pins are knocked down with the second throw in a frame. The points scored by the next ball rolled (in the next frame) are added to the spare's frame's score.
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(Australia, New Zealand) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
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(bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
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Any form of tenpin bowling that uses patterns of oil on the lane to reduce the effectiveness of modern bowling balls and thus make the game more challenging.
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(sports) A shot that swerves.
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(intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
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Alternative spelling of tenpin bowling [A sport where players roll a ball down a wooden pathway and try to knock down as many of the ten target pins as possible.]
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(bowling) A strike; the knocking down of all ten pins with one delivery of the ball.
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(uncountable) The game of tenpin bowling.
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A sport where players roll a ball down a wooden pathway and try to knock down as many of the ten target pins as possible.
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(colloquial, darts) A score of 100.
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(sports) A ball to which topspin is applied.
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One who throws or bowls a ball underhand.
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