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skittles
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
game played with nine pins, 1630s, plural of skittle , the word for the pins used in the game, probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish and Norwegian skyttel "shuttle, child's toy"). But OED says there is no evidence of a connection.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. bowling down an alley at a target of nine wooden pins [syn: ninepins ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Skittles is an old European lawn game , a variety of bowling from which ten-pin bowling , duckpin bowling , candlepin bowling (in the United States ), and five-pin bowling (in Canada ) are descended. In regions of the United Kingdom and Ireland the game ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skittles \Skit"tles\, n. pl. [Of Scand. origin. [root]159. See Shoot , v. t., and cf. Shuttle , Skit , v. t.] An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
Usage examples of skittles.
Though my recruitment onto the team denoted some raising of my status in the village I had not risen too high as there had always been a problem getting new members: a lot of the newer inhabitants of the Northamptonshire villages had difficulty in seeing the point of throwing cheese-shaped bits of wood at skittles in the evening after a hard day spent designing new forms of poison gas or new methods of torturing animals.
When I was up in town I met Mercy, through meeting Mercy I am now living with a girl who is forty years younger than me, my house is full of noise and her friends, I'm in the stupid skittles team throwing cheese-shaped bits of wood about twice a week and I haven't written a line of my poem, my great opus, my final testament to the world that will echo down the centuries, in fucking months!
But I heard, afterwards, that he was seen to play a lively game at skittles, before noon.
Crupp, 'if you was to take to skittles, now, which is healthy, you might find it divert your mind, and do you good.
Crupp's advice, and, perhaps, for no better reason than because there was a certain similarity in the sound of the word skittles and Traddles, that it came into my head, next day, to go and look after Traddles.
Sir Joseph Bowley, Baronet and Member of Parliament, was to play a match at skittles - real skittles - with his tenants!