| 单词 | tenpin |
| 释义 | > as lemmastenpin A game in which ten pins (see pin n.1 5c) or ‘men’ are set up to be bowled at; cf. ninepins n.; spec. (originally U.S.) a game so played, also called in England ‘American bowls’. Also, the pins with which this game is played; in singular. tenpin, one of these. 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 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood iv. 64 To play at loggets, nine holes, or ten pinnes.] 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 99 When Justice wink'd on every jovial Crew, And Ten-pins tumbled, in the Parson's View. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. vi. 208 Ten-Pins being a game of mingled chance and skill, invented when the legislature passed an act forbidding Nine-Pins. 1884 H. C. Bunner in Harper's Mag. Jan. 298/2 Base-ball and ten-pins are in no great favor. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 20 July 54/2 Even a ten-pin must be set up before it is knocked down. < as lemmas |
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