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lawn bowling

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lawn bowling
n.
A game played on a level lawn in which players roll biased wooden balls as close as possible to a smaller target ball. Also called bowls2.
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Noun1.lawn bowlinglawn bowling - a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
bowling - a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them
bowl - a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
jack - a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling


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English, Dutch and German settlers imported their own version of bowling to America, and the first permanent American bowling location was for ninepin lawn bowling in New York's Battery area While it is uncertain where the tenpin game evolved, by the late 1800s it was played in many states like New York, Ohio and Illinois
 
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