port

Inherited from the Old English port, from the Latin porta (“passage, gate”), reinforced by the Old French porte. Doublet of porta.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

(curling, bowls) A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.


green

en-noun

green (countable and uncountable, plural greens)

→⇒ Chinese: 果嶺 /果岭 (guǒlǐng)

→ Czech: green

→ Danish: green

→ Dutch: green

→ Finnish: griini

→ German: Green

→ Marshallese: kūriin

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *grōniz
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Germanic *-į̄
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *grōnī
Old English grēne
Middle English grene
English green
From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow.
See also North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn.
The sense "obscene, pornographic, sexual" in the Philippines is from a calque of Spanish verde.

der

(bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.


jack

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jegue

→ European Portuguese: jaque

Transferred use of the personal name Jack.
(cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10.

náłbiil bijaadbee dahnádidlohí

device for raising and supporting a heavy object

jekker

military: coarse medieval coat of defense

(obsolete) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.

(card games, originally colloquial) The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.

like an uninstructed bowler, so to speak, who thinks to attain the jack, by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it

1822, Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak:

(bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.


jack

The year before ('76) Kingman had 37 jacks with only 502 PAs. Is that the limit?

2001 October 8, Ray Dames, “Re: McGwire's Year”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):

Me three. I never have quite understood all the "three true outcomes" fetish around here. I mean, I know that building an offense around walks and 3-run jacks embodies the Sabermetric Virtues, and especially in today's conditions that's the way to win, but man, it sure leads to some slow, boring games.

2002 April 18, Perry, “Re: To all you Oakland A's fans...”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):

3-run jacks are just another tool in a team's chest. The goal is to make the playoffs, then win at least one more game than your opponent each round. And repeat next year, and the year after that, and...

2004 January 18, Terrell Miller, “Re: Does playing for the 3-run home run really help you win championships?”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):


spider

en-noun

spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)

[ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

(bowls) A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.


rub

en-verb

rub (third-person singular simple present rubs, present participle rubbing, simple past and past participle rubbed)

rubs (present singular third-person)
rubbing (participle present)
rubbed (participle past)
rubbed (past)

Inherited from Middle English rubben, of unknown origin; possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną, related to *reufaną (“to tear”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian rubje (“to rub, scrape”), German Low German rubben (“to rub”), Low German rubblig (“rough, uneven”), Dutch robben, rubben (“to rub smooth; scrape; scrub”), Danish rubbe (“to rub, scrub”), Icelandic and Norwegian rubba (“to scrape”).
More at reave.

cog

(transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.


bowl

From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.

der

(bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.


skip

Late Middle English skipper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”).

(bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.


toucher

From Middle English toucher, equivalent to touch + -er. The pejorative sense is derived from the sense of "touching" someone for money.

(bowls) A ball lying in contact with the jack.


bowls

A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.


crown green bowls

(sports) A form of bowls, played on a slightly humped, square, grass green, in which two players each play two biased bowls, either along the edges, or diagonally over the crown; it is especially popular in the north of England


bowling green

A finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of lawn for playing the game of bowls.


crown green

The playing area used in crown green bowls; normally about 40 yards square that rises to a "crown" in the middle about 1 foot above the edges


leatrom

leatroim (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
leatrom (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a leatroim (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
leatroim (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an leatrom (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
an leatroim (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an leatrom (definite singular)
don leatrom (definite singular)

From leath- (“lopsided, tilted”) + trom (“weight, burden”).

leatromach

heavier on one side, unevenly balanced, lopsided; one-sided, partial; oppressive; oppressed; distressed, afflicted; unevenly spread, scattered; heavy (with child), pregnant


jack-ball

Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:


petanca

Borrowed from French pétanque, from Occitan pès tancats (“closed feet”).


bocha

(Brazil) bowls; lawn bowls (sport where players roll balls such that they stop as close as possible to another ball)


baliin

Borrowed from Venetan balin, a diminutive of bala (“ball”), itself borrowed from Germanic.

Bèar jukhet in baliin jukhet och d'èerste spòtcia.

Whoever throws the jack also throws the first bocce.

(Sette Comuni) jack (target ball in bowls)


bolig

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βολίδιον (bolídion), diminutive of βόλος (bólos).


bochar

es-verb

bochar (first-person singular present bocho, first-person singular preterite boché, past participle bochado)

bocho (first-person present singular)
boché (first-person preterite singular)
bochado (participle past)
bochar (infinitive)
bochando (gerund)
bochado (masculine participle past singular)
bochada (feminine participle past singular)
bochados (masculine participle past plural)
bochadas (feminine participle past plural)
bocho (first-person indicative present singular)
bochas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
bochás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
bocha (indicative present singular third-person)
bochamos (first-person indicative plural present)
bocháis (indicative plural present second-person)
bochan (indicative plural present third-person)
bochaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
bochabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
bochaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
bochábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
bochabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
bochaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
boché (first-person indicative preterite singular)
bochaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
bochó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
bochamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
bochasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
bocharon (indicative plural preterite third-person)
bocharé (first-person future indicative singular)
bocharás (future indicative second-person singular)
bochará (future indicative singular third-person)
bocharemos (first-person future indicative plural)
bocharéis (future indicative plural second-person)
bocharán (future indicative plural third-person)
bocharía (conditional first-person indicative singular)
bocharías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
bocharía (conditional indicative singular third-person)
bocharíamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
bocharíais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
bocharían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
boche (first-person present singular subjunctive)
boches (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
bochés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
boche (present singular subjunctive third-person)
bochemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
bochéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
bochen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
bochara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
bocharas (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
bochara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
bocháramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
bocharais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
bocharan (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
bochase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
bochases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
bochase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
bochásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
bochaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
bochasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
bochare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
bochares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
bochare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
bocháremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
bochareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
bocharen (future plural subjunctive third-person)
bocha (imperative informal second-person singular)
bochá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
boche (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
boche (imperative singular third-person)
bochemos (first-person imperative plural)
bochad (imperative plural second-person)
bochen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
bochen (imperative plural third-person)
boches (imperative negative second-person singular)
boche (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
boche (imperative negative singular third-person)
bochemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
bochéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
bochen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
bochen (imperative negative plural third-person)