bow ‧ el /ˈbaʊəl/ BrE AmE noun
[ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: boel , from Medieval Latin botellus , from Latin botulus ; ⇨ ↑ botulism ]
1 . bowels [plural] the system of tubes inside your body where food is made into solid waste material and through which it passes out of your body ⇨ intestine
move/empty/open your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body)
2 . [singular] one part of this system of tubes:
cancer of the bowel
3 . a bowel movement formal the act of getting rid of solid waste from your body
4 . the bowels of something literary the lowest or deepest part of something
the bowels of the earth (=deep under the ground)