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Definition of Fives

1. Noun. A game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls.

Definition of Fives

1. n. pl. A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.

2. n. A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.

Definition of Fives

1. Noun. (plural of five) ¹

2. Noun. (chiefly British) a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall ¹

3. Noun. (poker slang) A pair of fives. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fives

1. five [n] - See also: five

Medical Definition of Fives

1. A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives. See: Vives. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Fives

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Guide Book to Books by Sargant, Edmund Beale, 1855-, Whishaw, Bernhard (1891)
"1*. ,, Tennis, rackets, and fives. ("AH England" ser.). sm. 8vo. Bell, illus. 1«. ... Gd. Admirable as regards " fives and rackets. ..."

2. Forms of Practice, Or, American Precedents in Personal and Real Actions by Benjamin Lynde Oliver (1851)
"Declaration qui tam, on the 9th Ann, against defendant for winning of one A. />'., at a game called fives. Middles-ex, to wit. RS, who sues as well for the ..."

3. Tennis by John Moyer Heathcote, Edward Oliver Pleydell-Bouverie, Arthur Campbell Ainger (1890)
"fives No history of English sports and pastimes would be complete without some account of the game of fives. But it must be confessed, at the outset, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... See A. Tail's fives in the All England Scries: " fives " in the Encyclopaedia of Sport; .... fives ..."

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