bowl

In Old English, bolla meant bowl, from earlier Anglo-Saxon bollo.. In later Middle English, bolle meant globe or bowl. Our word ball comes from the later 13th century Old Norse bollr, which comes from Latin bulla, a knob.

Bowl meaning to throw a ball did not come into English until the 15th century, from French boule, but the word boule was already used in Middle English for a bowl in the sense of dish.