Ninepins
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The game of bowls played in an alley with nine men or pins.
noun.
plural
The pins with which this game is played. See
tenpins
.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun plural.
A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
Plural form of
ninepin
.
noun.
The
game
of
skittles
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noun.
a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
Word Usage
"The autumn ramble: the woods, the dog, the gun, the Hudson, the stranger, the "ninepins" company, the flagon, the waking -- the changed scenes."
cross-reference
ninepin block
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
bowling
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
bowling