Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large rectangular well, provided with steps leading down to the water, and with recesses for travelers to rest in. The providing and maintenance of such tanks is a favorite object of native benevolence.
Examples
“February 2, 2008 at 6:13 pm an whi iz mi han ina bowly ov warm wadder ?”
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““I thought that sounded more bowly, you know, more masculine.””
“Scene changes y and difcovers Sir He&or aJUep in a dreJP - ing-room, Apuncb-bowly with pipes and tobacco * on*”
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“clearly a paperweight and small bowly dish thing - photos are dark because it's still dark here at early o' clock in the morning”
“Down I sprawls, rolly-bowly, anyhow all among the jumping hares, and brought up in the shadows at the bottom.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bowly’.
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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ruzuzu "A large rectangular well, provided with steps leading down to the water, and with recesses for travelers to rest in. The providing and maintenance of such tanks is a favorite object of native benevolence."
--Century Dictionary Jan 14, 2011