這個拼法是2個不同的字· 2 words spelled “bowler”
One person, alone at one end of a long space, sending a ball away towards a target at the other end. Everyone else waits and watches that one delivery. The ball leaves this person's hand and travels the whole distance; what happens at the far end — pins falling, a swinging — is the answer to what they just did. A bowler is simply whoever is at the sending end.
Wiktionary gives the word as bowl + -er, 'one who bowls'. The agent suffix -er names the doer, so the word points straight at the person doing the sending.
Wiktionary 記載這個字是 bowl 加 -er，也就是「滾球／送球的人」。-er 專門用來指「做這件事的人」，所以整個字就直接指向送球的那一位。
Wiktionary, "bowler" (etymology 1)
One branch
把球送出去的人
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bowler (cricket) · noun
In cricket, the player who sends the ball down the pitch towards the batsman, trying to get the batsman out or to stop them scoring; also a player chosen for the team mainly because of this skill.
（板球）投球手
A small hard dome sitting on a head, black, with a short brim that curls up at the sides. Think of half a ball turned upside down. It goes with a dark coat, an umbrella and a morning walk to a city office — a look that belongs to the past, which is why the hat now shows up mostly in old photographs, on stage and in cartoons.
Wiktionary records a separate origin for the hat: it is named after the hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler, who were associated with its early production. The hat shares only its spelling with the person who bowls a ball.
Wiktionary 記載帽子這個字有自己的來源：來自製帽師傅 Thomas Bowler 和 William Bowler，早期的生產跟他們有關。所以它跟「滾球的人」只是拼法一樣，並不是同一條線長出來的。
Wiktionary, "bowler" (etymology 2)