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
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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."
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    bowling  
    Synonym
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    bowling