Ninepins
91pin — I. /pɪn / (say pin) noun 1. a small, slender, sometimes tapered or pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, or hold things together, to hang things upon, to stop up holes, or to convey or check motion; a bolt; peg. 2. a small, thin… …
92skittle — /ˈskɪtl / (say skitl) noun 1. (plural) ninepins. 2. one of the pins. –verb (t) (skittled, skittling) 3. to knock over or send flying, in the manner of skittles: he was skittled by a car outside the bank. {Scandinavian; compare Danish skyttel kind …
93ninepin — [nin′pin΄] n. a pin used in the game of ninepins …
94skittle — [skit′ l] n. [prob. < Scand cognate of SHUTTLE (as in Dan skyttel, a shuttle, marble)] 1. [pl., with sing. v.] a British form of ninepins in which a wooden disk or ball is used to knock down the pins 2. any of these pins (not) all beer and… …
95bowls — noun a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack • Syn: ↑lawn bowling • Hypernyms: ↑bowling • Part Meronyms: ↑bowl, ↑jack * * * plural of bowl …
96kail — var. of KALE. * * * noun 1. a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head • Syn: ↑kale, ↑cole, ↑borecole, ↑colewort, ↑Brassica oleracea acephala • Hypernyms: ↑crucifer, ↑cru …
97ninepin ball — noun ball used to knock down ninepins • Syn: ↑skittle ball • Hypernyms: ↑ball …
98skittle — n. & v. n. 1 a pin used in the game of skittles. 2 (in pl.; usu. treated as sing.) a a game like ninepins played with usu. nine wooden pins set up at the end of an alley to be bowled down usu. with wooden balls or a wooden disc. b (in full table… …
99skittle ball — noun ball used to knock down ninepins • Syn: ↑ninepin ball • Hypernyms: ↑ball * * * noun : a heavy wooden disk used in skittles called also cheese * * * skittle ball, a heavy disk, usually of hard wood, for throwing or sliding at the pins in the …
100skittle pin — noun a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles • Syn: ↑ninepin, ↑skittle • Derivationally related forms: ↑skittle (for: ↑skittle) • …
