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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