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.
    • 16th century,Philip Sidney, Sidney Psalms
      the Earth, embowl'd by thee

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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