ˈkittle-pins, ˈkettle-pins, n. pl. Now only dial.
[The relation of this to skittle has not been determined.]
Skittles, nine-pins.
| 1649 G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, clxiii, Quoyts, and Kettle-pins. 1649 Sadler Rights Kingd. 43 When shall our kittle-pins return again into the Grecian skyttals. 1679 Trial Langhorn 32, I saw him in the Garden with a Lay-Brother at Kittle-pins in the view of all the Colledge. 1801 Strutt Sports & Past. iii. vii. (1810) 239 Loggatts..is the same which is now called kittle-pins, in which the boys often make use of bones instead of wooden pins. 1886 Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Kittle-pins, skittles—applied to the pins and not to the game. |
So ˈkittles n. pl., skittles.
| 1697 View Penal Laws 329 If any person..shall by any Fraud..at..Kittles..Win Money. 1719 D'Urfey Pills III. 162 We merrily Play At Trap, and Kettles. |