Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Skittles"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Skittles \Skit"tles\, n. pl. [Of Scand. origin. [root]159. See
{Shoot}, v. t., and cf. {Shuttle}, {Skit}, v. t.]
An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing
wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
skittles
n : bowling down an alley at a target of nine wooden pins [syn:
{ninepins}]
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