Obs. Forms: see BOWL sb.1 A bowl-shaped dish, a bowl.
1530. Palsgr., 199/2. Boledysshe or a bole, jatte.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 137. Take a great bowle-dish.
1712. Grt. Brit. Honeycombe, MS. (N.). The boy was throwing of a bole-dish of water over his fish.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Sallet, A large wooden Bowl-dish.
