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Definition of Skittling
1. skittle [v] - See also: skittle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skittling
Literary usage of Skittling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chess World (1869)
"... even border upon that usually spent upon what are called "skittling games,"
which I fancy are generally three or four, perhaps five or six times faster. ..."
2. Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and by Westminster Chess Club, London (1877)
"They tend to promote the cultivation of the game in its highest form, by inducing
more careful play than is likely to result from ordinary club skittling. ..."