Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
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noun
The game of skittles or ninepins.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
A simple impartial game in combinatorial game theory, in which players take turns to knock out one pin or two adjacent pins from a line of imagined bowling pins.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, game-theory, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
plural of kayle
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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History
From Middle English keyles, plural of Middle English keyle (see Dutch kegel, German Kegel, Danish kegle, and Swedish kegla).
