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a plate that learned to play defense against rolling peas.
means A round, deep dish for holding food or liquid — or, by extension, the rounded thing it names, like a stadium or the act of rolling a ball in cricket or lawn bowls.
from From Old English 'bolla,' meaning a round vessel or pot, with cousins across the Germanic family — Old High German 'bolla' and Old Norse 'bolli' all describe round, swelling things. The deep-dish sense and the round-ball-you-roll sense ('bowls,' 'bowling') eventually got tangled together in English, but the rolling 'bowl' actually has a separate root: Old French 'boule,' from Latin 'bulla,' meaning a bubble or rounded knob. So the dish and the ball arrived as look-alike strangers who happened to share a shape.
- oldest find
- Clay bowls predate the wheel by millennia.
- physics flex
- Its curve is gravity's favorite trap for soup.
- singing kind
- Tibetan bowls hum from rubbed metal rims.
- sport theft
- Stadiums stole the name for their shape.
- dust bowl
- A whole 1930s catastrophe borrowed the word.
super bowl — nfl championship game watched by ~115 million americans annually
rose bowl — college football game played in pasadena, california since 1902
world bowl — international american football championship held in various european cities