A lute with a body shaped like a bowl.

(idiomatic) To overwhelm; to cause to fall to the ground. / (idiomatic) To overwhelm with astonishment or wonder; to flabbergast

(transitive, idiomatic, UK, figuratively) to surprise (someone); to introduce (to someone) something unexpected, underhand or requiring a quick reaction or correction.

(cricket, of a side) To take all the opponents' wickets (in whatever way) and thus end their innings. / (cricket, of a bowler or batsman) To dismiss or be dismissed bowled.

(cricket) Out by being caught by the bowler.

(cricket) To bowl a batsman out with the ball hitting neither the bat nor the pads on the way to the stumps.

simple past tense and past participle of bowl out

(idiomatic) One of the four components of the traditional tea set. Tea drinkers emptied their unwanted, cold tea into the slop bowl before refilling their cups with fresh, hot tea.

A small, rounded, transparent, and domestic aquarium. / (by extension) Any place or event that lacks privacy or is intensely scrutinized.

plural of rice bowl