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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

pl.

A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.

☞ In the United States, ten pins are used for this game, which is therefore often called

tenpins

ninepins

plural of ninepin
The game of skittles
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
  The strange man with a keg of liquor … the woe-begone party at ninepins—the flagon—“Oh ! that flagon ! that wicked flagon !” thought Rip; ….