present participle of bowl

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 / (New England) Candlepin bowling.

Alternative form of bowdlerize

(transitive, idiomatic, UK, figuratively) to surprise (someone); to introduce (to someone) something unexpected, underhand or requiring a quick reaction or correction.

Alternative spelling of bower bird

Any bird of the Australasian family Ptilonorhynchidae noted for building display structures (bowers) and decorating them with bright objects such as shells, glass, flowers, etc.

A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle. / (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

To embower; to enclose. / (obsolete) To lodge.

A peasant; a farmer.

Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.