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  2. Glossary of bowls terms - Wikipedia

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    a rink that runs parallel to the ditch along its length. ditch weight. to play a bowl with sufficient weight to reach the ditch at the other end of the rink, or the ditch nearest the head in Crown Green bowls. division. in pennant games, associations may create tiered competition made up of separate divisions of teams.

  3. Bowls - Wikipedia

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    Equipment. Bowl/wood and jack/kitty. Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are heavier on one side so that they turn when being rolled. The game is played either in teams or one against one.

  4. Skittles (sport) - Wikipedia

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    Skittles (sport) Skittle Players outside an Inn by Jan Steen. Skittles is a historical lawn game and target sport of European origin, from which the modern sport of nine-pin bowling is descended. In regions of the United Kingdom and Ireland the game remains as a popular indoor pub game .

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  6. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The measure is the number of times one's name has appeared in The New York Times crossword puzzle as either a clue or solution. Arguably, this number should only be calculated for the Shortz era (1993–present). Shortz himself is 1 Shortz famous. [citation needed]

  7. Pétanque - Wikipedia

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    Pétanque ( French: [petɑ̃k] ⓘ, locally in Provence [peˈtãᵑkə]; Occitan: petanca [peˈtaŋkɔ] ⓘ; Catalan: petanca [pəˈtaŋkə, peˈtaŋka]) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports (along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls, crown green bowling ). In these sports, players or teams play their boules/balls ...

  8. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Lunar distance (LD), the distance from the centre of Earth to the centre of the Moon, is a unit of measure in astronomy. The lunar distance is approximately 384,400 km (238,900 mi), or 1.28 light-seconds; this is roughly 30 times Earth's diameter. A little less than 400 lunar distances make up an astronomical unit .

  9. List of obsolete units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Buddam. Candy. Corgee – an obsolete unit of mass equal to 212 moodahs, or rush mat bundles of rice. The unit was used in the Canara (now Kanara) region of Karnataka in India. Cullingey. Dharni. Dirham. Duella. Dutch cask – a British unit of mass, used for butter and cheese.