embowl
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]embowl (third-person singular simple present embowls, present participle embowling, simple past and past participle embowled)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To form like a bowl
- (obsolete, transitive) to give a globular shape to.
- 16th century,Philip Sidney, Sidney Psalms
- the Earth, embowl'd by thee
References
[edit]- “embowl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.