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minus-squarezweieuro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoOohhh OK, now I get it. I was missing that ‘bowl’ is short for boeling.
minus-squarepipes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIt’s not short for bowling (although it can be expressed like that too), it’s the infinitive form of the verb, to bowl. “Have you seen the birds fly?”
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoYou could also read it as a vowel. (in bowling) to roll a ball along a smooth surface during a game of bowls or bowling (in Cricket) to throw a ball towards a batsman (= the player who hits the ball) using a vertical circular movement of the arm while running: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bowl
Oohhh OK, now I get it. I was missing that ‘bowl’ is short for boeling.
It’s not short for bowling (although it can be expressed like that too), it’s the infinitive form of the verb, to bowl. “Have you seen the birds fly?”
You could also read it as a vowel.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bowl