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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 bowling - a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jacklawn 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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