lawn bowling

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noun
  1. a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green.

Origin of lawn bowling

1
First recorded in 1925–30
  • Also called bowls, bowling on the green .

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How to use lawn bowling in a sentence

  • lawn bowling is a different game from lawn bowls, which is described in a preceding paragraph.

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