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Definition of Skittled
1. skittle [v] - See also: skittle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skittled
Literary usage of Skittled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"Everybody's right, and boys don't get skittled round. "It was such a nice ride
after that. There was big trees on both sides of the road nearly all the way, ..."
2. The American Catalogue of Books: (original and Reprints,) Published in the by James Kelly (1871)
"ML (Rev.) American Methodism. 8vo. cl., $:t 50. Hartford Scranton & Co.
..1867 skittled ; or. ..."
3. Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook (1903)
"Everybody's right, and boys don't get skittled round." But, of course, the Board
Schools have done, and are doing, much to improve the rising generation ..."
4. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1889)
"Everybody's right, and boys dont get skittled round. ' Last Bank holiday was a
regular good one. The man called Mr. Binn as lives four doors from us has a ..."
5. Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook (1907)
"Everybody's right, and boys don't get skittled round." But, of course, the Board
Schools have done, and are doing, much to improve the rising generation. ..."
6. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"... to put in the newspapers, but what do you suppose upset our grand naval attack,
the day the Yankee gunboats skittled down the river so handsomely ? ..."