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Dry Lanes: A lane that has less conditioner than normal for your game; usually means earlier and more hook.

Dry Lane Ball: A ball that for you and your game performs better on dry lanes than on more heavily conditioned lanes; you can sometimes achieve the result by polishing a ball to make it shinier so that it . . . View Full Definition

Finish (As Applied To Lanes): (1) the underlying protective coating on the wood, often polyurethane; or (2) the lane conditioner and/or pattern.

Fast Lanes: This has two different and opposite meanings depending on the part of the country you reside. In some parts, a fast lane is one that is very oily (as the ball travels fast down the lane); in . . . View Full Definition

Heraldry: An art that dates back to the ancient custom of distinguishing nations, such as the Greeks and the Romans, military leaders and important officers by a badge on their shields. Later came exa . . . View Full Definition

Home Alley, House, or Lanes: Either the center where you normally bowl; or, within the center, your favorite lane or lanes.

Laundry (Money): The manipulation of money obtained in a wrongful manner, for example theft, so as to seem to have originated from a lawful source. An example is to pay the unlawful money into an overseas ba . . . View Full Definition

Drywall: A construction material used as a basis for interior walls in a home. Drywall is composed of an inner core of chalk with a paper facing on each side.

Dryland Farming: A system of producing crops in semi-arid regions (usually with less than 20 inches of annual rainfall) without irrigation. Dryland farmers often try to rebuild soil moisture by leaving the l . . . View Full Definition

Dry-Processed Coffee: Coffee processed by removing the husk or fruit after the coffee fruit has been dried. When only ripe fruit is utilized and the drying is done carefully dry-processed coffee can be complex, f . . . View Full Definition