ninepins, skittles
(noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
Source: WordNet® 3.1
skittles (uncountable)
(mostly British, uncountable) A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
(uncountable, chiefly, chess) An informal form of chess played without a clock.
skittles
plural of skittle
Source: Wiktionary
Skit"tles, n. pl. Etym: [Of Scand. origin. sq. root159. See Shoot, v. t., and cf. Shuttle, Skit, v. t.]
Definition: An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
Skit"tle, a.
Definition: Pertaining to the game of skittles. Skittle alley, an alley or court in which the game of skittles is played.
– Skittle ball, a disk or flattish ball of wood for throwing at the pins in the game of skittles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 May 2025
(adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
