soup-bowl

plural soup-bowls

1. datedDated form of soup bowl.

   Donlavey praised his engine builder, Bud Moore, and added that the Ford engine has “less low end tourque,^([sic]) so it’s better for this track,” which is a big soup-bowl of a speedway.

   1981 May 18, Harry Blaze, “Smoke and boredom at Dover Speedway”, in The Trenton Times, Trenton, N.J., →OCLC, page D8, column 3

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   Their lands are pledged to nearly the full value, and are rack-rented; and their position could not be maintained as it is but for the occasional sops which they contrive to fish out of the soup-bowls, supplied by the government for the relief of the famished.

   1847 April 3, “Irish Poor Law”, in The Preston Chronicle, and Lancashire Advertiser, number 1805, Preston, Lancashire, →OCLC, page 4, column 4

   He was about to turn away then, when upon the topmost shelf he caught a glimpse of the very thing Janie had been most anxious to hide from him, a silver tureen, very elegant and very massive. It had been a wedding present to Mrs. Gerald’s grandmother. “I’ll just take that there soup-bowl,” he remarked. “Mount up on a cheer, little gal, an’ hand it down to me.”

   1892 April 11, Julia Truitt Bishop, “No Coward After All”, in Buffalo Evening News, volume XXIII, number 154, Buffalo, N.Y., →OCLC, page 3, column 2