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† byles, n. pl. Obs.
Also 6 bilis, bylis.
[Prob. (although the phonetic correspondence is not quite clear) a. F. bille ‘ball’, also ‘a piece of wood’. In French jeu de billes has been the name of three distinct games: (1) a game with balls, identified by some with billiards, (2) a game like ‘knur and spell’ or ‘tipcat’, (3) skittles: see Littré s.v. bille, and Charpentier s.v. billa.]
An obsolete game with bowls, mentioned chiefly as Scotch.
1530Palsgr. 200/2 Bowle to playe at the byles, bille. c1565in Chalmers Life Mary (1818) I. 133 (Jam.), I had the honour..to play a party at a game called the Bilis. 1565Aberdeen Reg. V. 26 (Jam.) Cartis, dyiss, tabillis, goif, kylis, bylis, & sic wther playis. |