bool
Britishnoun
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a bowling bowl
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a playing marble
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(plural) the game of bowls or marbles
verb
Etymology
Origin of bool
Scot variant of bowl ²
Example Sentences
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Through her late husband’s bool hunt and her trips to Boo’ya Moon, Lisey is finally able to come to terms with her own grief and repair her own fractured relationships with her sisters.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2021
The bool was in Farmer Jones's field, and the field was in the duckpong on the other side.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
Piper explained the purpose for which these flowers had been gathered by informing me that, by steeping them a night in water, the natives make a sweet beverage named bool.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Mitchell, Thomas
Bull, bool, n. an edict of the pope which has his seal affixed.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Bull, bool, n. drink made by pouring water into a cask that had held liquor.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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