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for Bowling alley
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Bowling \Bowl"ing\, n.
The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the
ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
bowling alley
n 1: a building that contains several alleys for bowling
2: a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins [syn:
bowling alley, alley, skittle alley]
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