ninepins
English
Noun
ninepins
- plural of ninepin
- The game of skittles
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
- The strange man with a keg of liquor … the woe-begone party at ninepins—the flagon—“Oh ! that flagon ! that wicked flagon !” thought Rip; ….
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