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Ninepins

noun
1.
A bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins.  Synonym: skittles.





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"Ninepins" Quotes from Famous Books



... With a box of ninepins very much the same game can be played. In wet weather, in the hall, a box of large ...
— What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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... consider the alternative of a compromise with a possibly victorious party which he detested. Perhaps his ambition was too vaulting to adapt itself to a restricted field when his imagination had played for years with the big ninepins of history; at all events, it was inseparably bound up with nationalism in the boldest sense achievable, and with methods which days and nights of severe thought had convinced him were for the greatest good of the American people. ...
— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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Words linked to "Ninepins" :   skittles, bowling


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