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Bowling
Tom Bowling. The type of a model sailor in Smollett's Roderick Random. (To rhyme with rolling.) The Tom Bowling
referred to in Dibdin's famous sea-song was Captain Thomas Dibdin,
brother of Charles Dibdin, who wrote the song, and father of Dr.
Dibdin, the bootlegbooksc.
Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling,
The darling of the crew.
Dibdin.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Bowling from Infoplease:
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