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 William Frend De Morgan
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
And he undooed the gate with his whip to go froo, and it stumbled and let the bool froo, and Farmer Jones he rodid off to get the boy that understoodid the bool.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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
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