The sockets of the lamps of the golden candlestick of the tabernacle are called bowls (Exodus 25:31, 33, 34; 37:17, 19, 20); the same word so rendered being elsewhere rendered "cup" (Genesis 44:2, 12, 16), and wine "pot" (Jeremiah 35:5). The reservoir for oil, from which pipes led to each lamp in Zechariah's vision of the candlestick, is called also by this name (Zechariah 4:2, 3); so also are the vessels used for libations (Exodus 25:29; 37:16).

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

2. (n.) Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.

3. (n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

4. (n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.

5. (n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.

6. (n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.

7. (n.) The game of tenpins or bowling.

8. (v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.

9. (v. t.) To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

10. (v. t.) To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

11. (v. i.) To play with bowls.

12. (v. i.) To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.

13. (v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.