bowler

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bowl·er /ˈbəʊlə $ ˈboʊlər/ noun [countable]  1. DSCa player in cricket who throws the ball at a batsman 〔板球的〕投球手2. DC (also bowler hat British English) a hard round black hat that businessmen sometimes wear 〔硬圆顶黑色〕常礼帽 SYN American English derby →4  See picture of 见图 HAT →5 see picture at 见图 hat

Examples from the Corpus

bowler• As a bowler at Middlesex, Tuffers has a great tradition to live up to.• Three needed to take the lead: young fast bowler Royden Hayes, till then victimless, skittled Priest.• Can it really be only 18 months ago that the Surrey opening bowler was dispatching Martin Crowe in successive one-day internationals?• Brown would be the brave choice; he's now reckoned to be the more penetrating bowler.• I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat.• In any case, let's adjust the mundane balance of recent decades and start with the slow bowlers.• Yet the bowlers defended well, and only Richardson mastered them so that the closing overs were tense.

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bowler
bowl‧er /ˈbəʊlə $ ˈboʊlər/ noun [countable]

1. a player in cricket who throws the ball at a batsman
2. (also bowler hat British English) a hard round black hat that businessmen sometimes wear
   SYN  derby American English

bowl·erBrE /ˈbəʊlə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈboʊlər/ 🔊 noun(in cricket 板球) a player who throws the ball towards the batsman 投球手

(also ˌbowler ˈhat) (both especially BrE) (NAmE usually derby) a hard black hat with a curved brim and round top, worn, for example, in the past by men in business in Britain 常礼帽（英国旧时商人等戴）