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Skittle   /skˈɪtəl/   Listen
Skittle

noun
1.
A bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles.  Synonyms: ninepin, skittle pin.
verb
1.
Play skittles.



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"Skittle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Besborough and his daughters, Lord Thomond, Mr. Boufoy, the Duke, the old Duchess,(94) and two of his brothers. Would you believe that nothing was ever better humoured than the ancient grace? She stayed every evening till it was dark in the skittle-ground, keeping the score: and one night, that the servants had a ball for Lady Dorothy'S(95) birthday, we fetched the fiddler into the drawing-room, and the dowager herself danced with us! I never was more ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
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... arrives the coroner, for whom the jurymen are waiting and who is received with a salute of skittles from the good dry skittle-ground attached to the Sol's Arms. The coroner frequents more public-houses than any man alive. The smell of sawdust, beer, tobacco-smoke, and spirits is inseparable in his vocation from death in its most awful shapes. ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens
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