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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Oohhh OK, now I get it. I was missing that 'bowl' is short for bowling.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You 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

[–] pipes 2 points 1 month ago

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?"