Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Fives"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fives \Fives\ (f[imac]vz), n. pl.
A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis;
-- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to
the game. --Smart.
{Fives court}, a place for playing fives.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fives \Fives\, n. [See {Vives}.]
A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
--Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fives
n : (British) a game resembling handball; played on a court with
a front wall and two side walls
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