“Bowl”, to play a game which involves rolling a ball, which is obscurely spelled “bowl”  comes from Latin through French.

 “Bowl” the vessel for food and drink, can be found here.

• 8.029 and bowled them over,
• 8.092 shooting at the wand, bowls, ninepins

“bowl, n.2.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2016. Web. 28 June 2016.

“bowl, v.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2016. Web. 28 June 2016.