Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disemboweled: as, “a hare already bowelled.”
- Having recesses or hollow places: as, “the bowelled cavern,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having bowels; hollow.
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Examples
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Dreamworks has become such a loose-boweled animation sweat-shop excessively crapping out far too many mediocre CGI movies.
Watch This: Official Theatrical Trailer for Shrek Forever After « FirstShowing.net 2010
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It means more overtime for some employees, so there's that vague, full-boweled pleasure at the windfall, along with an equally vague excitement at the break in routine.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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"To what regiment of executioners does the black-boweled caitiff belong?" asked the Mikado.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911
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The sound of its travel is sluggish, and one divines a projectile bigger-boweled, more enormous than the others.
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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Hanging was the common punishment for felony, but traitors and many other offenders were drawn, hanged, boweled, and quartered; nobles who were traitors usually escaped with having their heads chopped off only.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Hanging was the common punishment for felony, but traitors and many other offenders were drawn, hanged, boweled, and quartered; nobles who were traitors usually escaped with having their heads chopped off only.
Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Hanging was the common punishment for felony, but traitors and many other offenders were drawn, hanged, boweled, and quartered; nobles who were traitors usually escaped with having their heads chopped off only.
For Whom Shakespeare Wrote Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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"He's a good doctor," was the verdict of one of this class of leather-boweled fellows -- "he'll work your innards for you!"
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Harris is has boweled outstanding every time he plays , then u have hillf in great form.
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Harris is has boweled outstanding every time he plays , then u have hillf in great form.
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