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nine-pins

nine-pins is the alternative form of ninepins.

Meaning of ninepins

Noun

ninepins

  1. The game of skittles.
    • On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins.1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page...

Forms of nine-pins

pluralnine-pinses

Questions about nine-pins

What is nine-pins the alternative form of?
Nine-pins is the alternative form of ninepins.

Words near nine-pins in the dictionary

  1. nine-killers
  2. nine-nine-nine
  3. nine-nine-six
  4. nine-one-one
  5. nine-one-ones
  6. nine-pins
  7. nine-point circle
  8. nine-point circles
  9. nine-pounder
  10. nine-pounders
  11. nine-primaried oscine

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