ninepins in English

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a British game similar to bowling, using nine wooden pins and played in an alley; the traditional form of skittles.
The transformation of ninepins to the tenpin game happened in North America, where the original game had also been introduced by the Dutch.
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1. They all go down like ninepins one after the other.

2. There's a lot of flu about people are going down like ninepins.

3. Getty Images ONCE they started falling, the totems toppled like ninepins this week.

4. Near one end of the lawn were twelve old - fashioned knights playing at ninepins.

5. 28 Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs.

6. 11 It was rumored that Henry Hudson, the great explorer,(www.Sentencedict.com) and his crew played ninepins in the mountains every twenty years.