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Definition of Ninepin
1. Noun. A bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles.
Definition of Ninepin
1. Noun. The wooden pin used in the game of ninepins; a skittle ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ninepin
1. a wooden pin used in a bowling game [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ninepin
Literary usage of Ninepin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chinese Commercial Guide, Containing Treaties, Tariffs, Regulations by Samuel Wells Williams (1863)
"ninepin Rock, or East ninepin, 222 feet high, lies nearly a mile eastward of the
North ninepin, and assumes the appearance that its name indicates only when ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"On this theory of the origin of the word we must suppose that G. kegel, a ninepin,
a cone, is named from its resemblance to an icicle. Knacker. ..."
3. The Paradisus Londinensis: Or Coloured Figures of Plants Cultivated in the ...by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker (1807)
"... shaped like a ninepin, one side of the lop rather more prominent where it is
thinly pubescent, not melliferous at the base. ..."
4. The China Pilot: Comprising the Coasts of China, Korea, and Manchuria; the by John William King, Great Britain Hydrographic Dept (1861)
"The southern face of the South ninepin is a precipitous cliff, 330 feet high :
off its ... The surface of the North ninepin \s nearly of the same elevation, ..."
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