Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bowl \Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bowling}.]
   1. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.

            Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And
            bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. --Shak.

   2. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we
      were bowled rapidly along the road.

   3. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

            Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And
            bowled to death with turnips?         --Shak.

   {To bowl} (a player) {out}, in cricket, to put out a striker
      by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.