Ninepins

Noun

plural

1. Plural of ninepin
2. The game of skittles
• 1819, s:Author:Washington Irving, s:The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, The strange man with a keg of liquor … the woe-begone party at ninepins—the flagon—“Oh ! that flagon ! that wicked flagon !” thought Rip; ….