| 单词 | double spare |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdouble spare 4. Originally U.S. In ten-pins and skittles: The knocking down of all the pins with two bowls (thus leaving one ‘to spare’), or with the first bowl (more fully double spare); the score for doing this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > types of shot spare1843 floorer1881 field goal1961 1843 Knickerbocker 22 327 His bowling at ninepins was the very perfection of carelessness. He was never guilty of a ‘spare’. 1879 Daily News 2 Sept. 3/1 Younger people..sought out the American ten-pin alleys,..and, in striving for ‘spares’ and ‘double-spares’, esteemed themselves far in advance of their wise elders. 1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 299/2 Strikes and spares were less common. 1976 Bridgwater Mercury 21 Dec. Keith Pollard, whose top-of-the-board 84 included four spares, led Alleycats to a runaway home win..in a first division Puriton and District Skittles League Game. < as lemmas |
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