Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A game in which nine holes are made in a board or the ground, at which the players roll small balls.
- noun Same as
nine-eyes .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural A game in which nine holes are made in the ground, into which a ball is bowled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic An old
game whereplayers bowl aball towards nine holes in the ground, scoringpoints according to which hole the ball enters.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The two runners and the nineholes make salting and boiling pieces; but, of these, the nineholes is much the best, as it consists of layers of fat and lean without any bone; whereas the fore parts of the runners have a piece of shoulder-blade in them, and every piece connected with that bone is more or less coarse-grained.
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The Short Horns afford excellent steaks, being thick of flesh, and the slice deep, large and juicy, and their covered flanks and nineholes are always thick, juicy, and well-mixed.
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These are all the pieces of the fore-quarter; and it will be seen that they consist chiefly of boiling-pieces, and some of them none of the finest -- the roasting-piece being confined to the six ribs of the spare rib, and the finest boiling-piece, corned, only to be found in the nineholes.
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and trolmydames not even in the OED! is 'The game of nineholes.'
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