這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 （板球）投球手 · 圓頂硬禮帽
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 (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:737676187), etymology 1: "From bowl + -er."
From the picture
把球送出去的人
這一組的兩個意思共用同一個畫面，只是換了運動場地。差別在於球送到哪裡、對面等著的是什麼。
noun · B2
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
noun · B1
Someone who plays bowling — the game where you roll a heavy ball down a long smooth lane and try to knock over the pins standing at the far end.
打保齡球的人
A second word, same spelling
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 (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:737686398), etymology 2: "From the name of the hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler, associated with early production."