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skittles

Game in which nine wooden pins, arranged in a diamond-shaped frame at the end of an alley, are knocked down in three rolls from the other end of the alley with a wooden ball. Two or more players can compete. Skittles resembles tenpin bowling.

A smaller version called table skittles is played indoors on a table using a pivoted ball attached to a pole by a chain.



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He looked with an indifferent eye, alike on skittles, cards, and dice, thinking only of the locksmith's daughter, and the base degenerate days on which he had fallen.
"They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of skittles," said he in conclusion.
At the appointed hour arrives the coroner, for whom the jurymen are waiting and who is received with a salute of skittles from the good dry skittle-ground attached to the Sol's Arms.
 
 
 
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