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bowlmaking

bowlmaking noun: the manufacture of bowls.

Noun

bowlmaking (uncountable)

  1. The manufacture of bowls.
    • But ethnologist Gene Weltfish obtained a Pawnee woman's account of bowlmaking that made no reference to any use of fire in the process: […]1986, John Canfield Ewers, Plains Indian Sculpture, page 173

Origin of bowlmaking

From bowl + making.

Questions about bowlmaking

What does bowlmaking mean?
Bowlmaking means the manufacture of bowls.
What part of speech is bowlmaking?
Bowlmaking is a noun.

Words near bowlmaking in the dictionary

  1. Bowlings
  2. bowlliards
  3. bowllike
  4. bowlmaker
  5. bowlmakers
  6. bowlmaking
  7. bowlo
  8. bowlos
  9. bowls
  10. bowls a googly
  11. bowls full

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