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Bowling alley   /bˈoʊlɪŋ ˈæli/   Listen
noun
Bowling  n.  The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins.
Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.






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"Bowling alley" Quotes from Famous Books



... sometimes an American bowling alley, where on cold nights, or hot, for the matter of that, we roll huge wooden balls down a raised track for twenty yards, to scatter nine pins at the bottom. There are two parallel tracks and we make up two bowling parties ...
— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready

... I'd have a bowling alley, a skating rink, a machine shop, a tennis court, and—a rifle range. Yes, it is a taking plan, but there are two things that I don't understand. How can you cover such a big box, and where is the cooking ...
— The House that Jill Built - after Jack's had proved a failure • E. C. Gardner

... end of Waehringer Street there was an inn, with a bowling alley; the proprietor, a master rope-maker, was as well known for his good beer as for the excellence of his ropes. Mozart heard the balls and saw a dozen or more guests within. A half-unconscious desire to forget himself among natural and unassuming ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various



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