[f. BOWL sb.1 or v.2 + -ER1.]
† 1. A deep drinker; a drunkard: see BOLLER 1.
2. A workman who shapes the bowl of a spoon.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 413/2. The ‘bowler’ who domes up the broad end into the semblance of a bowl.
