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Ninepins

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

n. Plural form of ninepin.

n. The game of skittles

noun-plural. A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.

n. The game of bowls played in an alley with nine men or pins.

n. plural The pins with which this game is played. See tenpins.

n. a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins

"The autumn ramble: the woods, the dog, the gun, the Hudson, the stranger, the "ninepins" company, the flagon, the waking -- the changed scenes."

Words that are more generic or abstract

bowling

ninepin block

Words with the same meaning

bowling