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a.
Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally.
n.
A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.
n.
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.
n.
The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
a.
Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. Over-arm and Round-Arm.
adv.
In an underhand manner; -- said of pitching or bowling.
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Done (as bowling or pitching) with the arm raised above the shoulder. See Overhard.
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Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder.
n. pl.
A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.
n.
An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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a.
Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than elbow.
n.
The game of tenpins or bowling.