† half-bowl Obs.
A game played with a hemisphere of wood and fifteen small pins of a conical form.
| 1477–8 Act 17 Edw. IV, c. 3 (1763) Diverses novelx ymagines Jeuez appelles cloish, kayles, half-bowle, handyn & handoute. 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 9. §11. 1801 Strutt Sports & Past. iii. vii. §12. (1810) 241 Half-bowl is practised to this day in Hertfordshire, where it is commonly called rolly-polly. |