skittle pin

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• skittle pin — noun a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles • Syn: ↑ninepin, ↑skittle • Derivationally related forms: ↑skittle (for: ↑skittle) • …   Useful english dictionary

• pin — ► NOUN 1) a thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end and a round head at the other, used for fastening pieces of cloth, paper, etc. 2) a metal projection from a plug or an integrated circuit. 3) a small brooch or badge. 4) Medicine a… …   English terms dictionary

• skittle — ► NOUN 1) (skittles) (treated as sing. ) a game played with wooden pins set up at the end of an alley to be bowled down with a wooden ball. 2) a pin used in the game of skittles. 3) (also table skittles) a game played with similar pins set up on… …   English terms dictionary

• pin — noun 1》 a thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end and a round head at the other, used for fastening pieces of cloth, paper, etc.     ↘a small brooch or badge.     ↘Medicine a steel rod used to join the ends of fractured bones while they …   English new terms dictionary

• pin — 1. noun /pɪn/ a) A small device, made (usually) of drawn out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening. Im not so good on my pins these days. b) A small nail with a head and a sharp point …   Wiktionary

• skittle — noun 1》 (skittles) [treated as sing.] a game played with wooden pins, typically nine in number, set up at the end of an alley to be bowled down with a wooden ball or disc.     ↘(also table skittles) a game played with similar pins set up on a… …   English new terms dictionary

• skittle — n. & v. n. 1 a pin used in the game of skittles. 2 (in pl.; usu. treated as sing.) a a game like ninepins played with usu. nine wooden pins set up at the end of an alley to be bowled down usu. with wooden balls or a wooden disc. b (in full table… …   Useful english dictionary

• skittle pool — noun : a game played on a billiard table with two white balls, a red ball, and a number of black and white pins in which counts are made by knocking down any of the white pins with the cue ball after contact with an object ball but if a black pin …   Useful english dictionary

• bowling pin — noun a club shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target • Syn: ↑pin • Hypernyms: ↑bowling equipment • Hyponyms: ↑candlepin, ↑duckpin, ↑headpin, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Ten-pin bowling — is a competitive sport in which a player (the “bowler”) rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic (polyurethane) lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible. The convert|41.5|in|cm|0|lk=on|sing=on… …   Wikipedia

• Five-pin billiards — This article is about the originally Italian and now internationally standardized billiard game. For the Danish five pin game, see Danish pin billiards. Five pins redirects here. For other uses, see Five pins (disambiguation). Five pin billiards… …   Wikipedia