lawn bowling
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- noun
- /lɔn ˈboʊlɪŋ/
- UK
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petanca
- After learning the rules, she quickly became skilled at lawn bowling and often won matches.
And they were talking about their days were spent lawn bowling and going to movies and playing bridge.
- And they were talking about their days were spent lawn bowling and going to movies and playing bridge.
Examples
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And they were talking about their days were spent lawn bowling and going to movies and playing bridge.
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You know... lawn bowling?
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Joss and the other kids played with Lev's new lawn bowling set and squirted each other with water bottles.
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On sunny afternoons, the locals gather at the park to enjoy a game of lawn bowling.
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The community organized a tournament to promote lawn bowling among the residents.
Synonyms
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A game on grass where players roll heavy balls to stop near a small ball called the jack
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a game of bowling played on a lawn' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'lawn' (a mowed grass area) with 'bowling' (the game of rolling balls). This simple location + activity composition is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Lawn bowling comes from the words lawn meaning the grass field and bowling meaning rolling balls. In the game players roll heavy, slightly curved balls to stop close to a small white ball called the 'jack', so that clear image of rolling bowls on the grass explains the name and the sport today.