embowl

English

Etymology

em- +‎ bowl

Verb

embowl (third-person singular simple present embowls, present participle embowling, simple past and past participle embowled)

  1. (obsolete) To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Philip Sidney to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for embowl in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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