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Definition of Ninepins
1. Noun. A bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins.
Definition of Ninepins
1. n. pl. 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.
Definition of Ninepins
1. Noun. (plural of ninepin) ¹
2. Noun. The game of skittles ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ninepins
1. ninepin [n] - See also: ninepin
Medical Definition of Ninepins
1. 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. In the United States, ten pins are used for this game, which is therefore often called tenpins. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ninepins
Literary usage of Ninepins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jolly Book of Playcraft by Patten Beard (1916)
"THE GAME OF BOX ninepins Material Required to Make the Game of Box ninepins: from
five to nine small oblong druggist boxes about two inches long, a marble. ..."
2. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"Skittles or ninepins. Cloth in the wind. (Naut.) 1. Sailing so near the wind that
the sails shake. 2. Tipsy. Clot-poll, Clod-poll. A blockhead. Clôture. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"It seems simpler to confess our ignorance of the reason for which this name was
given. ninepins. Ben Jonson speaks of 'nine-pins or keils; Chlo- ridia. ..."
4. Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"In 1683, ninepins were played there (see Ballads on the Great Frost, p. 27, Percy
Society, vol. ix.) In the reign of Mary, it was usual to bury Protestant ..."
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