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kittle-pins
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 Tri... Oxford English Dictionary
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kettles
kettle-pins, kettles variants of kittle-pins, kittles. Oxford English Dictionary
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Grants Mills Bridge
Both chords and the diagonals, connected by wood pins at each intersection, are formed by heavy paired planks. It took its popular name from a mill two miles (3 km) to the west at the intersection of Mill Brook and what is now Kittle Road. wikipedia.org
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skittle
▪ I. skittle, n. (skɪt(ə)l) Also 7 pl. skittolles, sketells (skyttals). [Of uncertain origin: forms without initial s- (see kittle-pins) appear a little later in the 17th cent., whereas in the case of kayles and skayles the s- form is the later of the two. Phonetically skittle answers exactly to the... Oxford English Dictionary
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skayles
† skayles Obs. In 6 skailes, 6–7 skayles, scailes, skales, 7 scales. [app. a variant of kayles, but the origin of the s- is not clear; cf. kittle-pins and skittles.] A form of the game of skittles or ninepins; also, one of the pins with which this game is played.α a 1566 W. Wager Longer thou livest ... Oxford English Dictionary
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