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ˈkittle-pins, ˈkettle-pins, n. pl. Now only dial.
[The relation of this to skittle has not been determined.]
Skittles, nine-pins.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, clxiii, Quoyts, and Kettle-pins. 1649Sadler Rights Kingd. 43 When shall our kittle-pins return again into the Grecian skyttals. 1679Trial Langhorn 32, I saw him in the Garden with a Lay-Brother at Kittle-pins in the view of all the Colledge. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. vii. (1810) 239 Loggatts..is the same which is now called kittle-pins, in which the boys often make use of bones instead of wooden pins. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Kittle-pins, skittles—applied to the pins and not to the game.
So ˈkittles n. pl., skittles.
1697View Penal Laws 329 If any person..shall by any Fraud..at..Kittles..Win Money. 1719D'Urfey Pills III. 162 We merrily Play At Trap, and Kettles. |