Ninepins: alternatives and connections

A game played with a large inflated ball.

The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball w…

To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to th…

A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting…

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, bu…

A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is us…

To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponen…

A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small hole…

To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to…

A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and th…

An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground.

A ring for gauging wooden pins.

An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or gr…

A game in which nine holes are made in the ground, into which a ball is bowled.

A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five.

A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the…