The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BOWLS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result BOWLS
- Gets out some crockery?
- Gets out dishes
- Couch potato carrying wife around for sociable sport
- Takes over game on green
- Pedestrian pursuit of Members of Parliament under Blair’s leadership
- Game that is decided in the end
- Takes over domestic vessels
- Sport in which Jack plays important role?
- Delivers dishes
- Blackbirds in 16 activity
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The straight part
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What does BOWLS mean?
BOWLS noun- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- The round hollow part of anything.
- A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- The action of bowling a ball.
- (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
- To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.
- A ball used in the game of bowls