plural. The set of pins of wood or bone used in a kind of ninepins or skittles; more frequently, the game played with these.

Combinations of the singular kayle-, keel-, etc., as kayle-alley, kayle-bone, kayle-pin, kayle play.

Each of the pins with which this game is played.

One of the wooden pins with which this game is played. Cf. ninepins, n. 2a.

Other concrete uses. A skittle; a point gained by knocking down a skittle. In plural: the game of skittles. Cf. ninepins, n., ten-pins, n.

(plural) skittles.