ninepins

[ nahyn-pinz ]

/ ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz /

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noun

(used with a singular verb) tenpins played without the head pin.

ninepin, a pin used in this game.

Words nearby ninepins

nine-to-five, ninebark, ninefold, ninepence, ninepenny, ninepins, niner, nineteen, nineteen eighty-four, nineteenth, nineteenth amendment

Origin of ninepins

1570–80; nine + pins

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Examples from the Web for ninepins

Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they.
Essays, First Series|Ralph Waldo Emerson
They were being bowled over like ninepins, as the Germans must have seen them crossing the open.
The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10)|James Edward Parrott
The result was rather bad for the Turks; they went down like a lot of ninepins before Mole's railway-like progression.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks|Bracebridge Hemyng
Treat men as pawns and ninepins, and you shall suffer as well as they.
Discourses in America|Matthew Arnold

Archy, excited for the first time in his life, threw a box of ninepins at them, which exploded.
Ravenshoe|Henry Kingsley

British Dictionary definitions for ninepins

ninepins

/ (ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz) /

noun

(functioning as singular) another name for skittlesSee skittle (def. 2)

(singular) one of the pins used in this game

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ninepins

noun

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Words nearby ninepins

Origin of ninepins

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British Dictionary definitions for ninepins

noun