单词 | kayles |
释义 | kaylesn. Now dialect or Historical. a. plural. The set of pins of wood or bone used in a kind of ninepins or skittles; more frequently, the game played with these.Johnson has the following, apparently through confusion with another game: ‘Kayle, a kind of play still retained in Scotland, in which nine holes ranged in three's are made in the ground, and an iron bullet rolled in among them.’ ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] kaylesc1325 skaylesa1566 ninepins1580 pin1580 skittles1634 kittle-pins1649 skayle-pins1656 nine pegs1675 four corners1730 Dutch pins1801 Dutch rubbers1801 long bowling1801 ten-pins1807 squails1847 ten-pin bowling1934 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > pin(s) kaylesc1325 kayle-pin1621 ninepins1664 skittle1680 pin1694 kittles1697 α. β. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) i. sig. H2 And now at keels they trie a harmles chaunce.1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A play called Nine pins or keeles, or skailes.1642 King Charles I Let. both Houses You..will quickly resolve all their debates and all their actions, into keales.1721 B. Lynde Diary 15 June in B. Lynde & B. Lynde Diaries (1880) 131 Playing keels.1721 B. Lynde Diary 7 July in B. Lynde & B. Lynde Diaries (1880) 132 Played keels with Icha.1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Keals.γ. 1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 275 Item, that samyn nycht in Drummyn, to the King to play at the kilis, xxviij s.1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Kiles, or nine pinnes.1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. i. 11 They found nine Flaggons set in such order as they use to ranke their kyles in Gasconie.1715 Sherrifmuir in Jacob. Songs & Ball. (1887) 96 They houghed the clans like ninepin kyles. [Kyles or kiles were played in Hawick in early part of 19th c.]c1325 Song in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 292 Ther-fore has ure mayster ofte horled mi kayles. 1388 Act 12 Rich. II c. 6 §1 Les..jeues appellez Coytes dyces gettre de pere keyles & autres tielx jeues importunes. c1450 Advice to Apprentices in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 224 Exchewe allewey..Caylys, cardyng, and haserdy. 1540 Order in T. Rymer Fœdera (1712) XIV. 707 The Playes of Handeoute and Keiles. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 10v The residue of the time, they weare out at Coytes, Kayles, or like idle exercises. 1631 B. Jonson Chloridia 145 All the Furies are at a game call'd nine pins, or keilles. 1737 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (E.D.S.) Cales, skittles, ninepins. So they call them at Canterbury. 1832 A. E. Bray Let. in Descr. Part Devonshire (1836) II. xxvii. 170 Kales..This is our provincial name, for..nine-pins, or skittles. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Cailes, skittles, ninepins. b. singular. One of the pins used in the game. rare. ΚΠ 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 238 To use their King, as the players at Nine-pins do the middle Kyle, which they call the king; at whose fall alone they aim. Compounds Combinations of the singular kayle-, keel-, etc., as kayle-alley, kayle-bone, kayle-pin, kayle play. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > pin(s) kaylesc1325 kayle-pin1621 ninepins1664 skittle1680 pin1694 kittles1697 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 342 Keelpins, tronkes, coits,..and many such, which are the common recreations of country folkes. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 51 Keale-bones and checke-stones to play with children. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 261 Osiers good for hurdles, sieves..kyele-pins [etc.]. c1702 in Rogers Soc. Life Scotl. (1884) II. xii. 252 Bowling-greens, kyle-alleys. 1726 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 11 Feb. 3 A very spacious Yard, for both Keal and Tennis-Play. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. 238 Primitively the kale-pins do not appear to have been confined to any certain number. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1325 |
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