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bowler

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Noun
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bowl=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

bowlern. 
     One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.  [1913 Webster]
bowlern. [From 2d Bowl.].
     A derby hat.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bowler, n.
1 Cricket etc. a member of the fielding side who bowls or is bowling.
2 a player at bowls.

bowler, n. (in full bowler hat) a man's hard felt hat with a round dome-shaped crown.

Idiom
bowler-hat (-hatted, -hatting) sl. retire (a person) from the army etc. (he's been bowler-hatted).
Etymology
Bowler, a hatter, who designed it in 1850

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