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单词 byles
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bylesn.

Forms: Also 1500s bilis, bylis.
Etymology: Probably (although the phonetic correspondence is not quite clear) < French 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.
Obsolete.
An obsolete game with bowls, mentioned chiefly as Scottish.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 200/2 Bowle to playe at the byles, bille.
1565 Aberdeen Reg. V. 26 (Jam.) Cartis, dyiss, tabillis, goif, kylis, bylis, & sic wther playis.
c1565 in Chalmers Life Mary (1818) I. 133 (Jam.) I had the honour..to play a party at a game called the Bilis.
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