skittle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++skit·tle /ˈskɪtl/ noun 1. skittles [uncountable]DGO a British game in which a player tries to knock down objects shaped like bottles by rolling a ball at them 〔英国的〕撞柱戏，九柱戏〔沿球道以球击倒数根瓶状木柱的游戏〕2. [countable]DGO one of the objects you roll the ball at in the game of skittles 〔撞柱戏用的〕木柱
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skittle• Other facilities include a bar, an excellent restaurant, swimming pool, fitness room, sauna, solarium & skittle alley.• That for an hour, then a skittle of milk and the chalky Pyramids rubbed into dust.• Corstorphine Inn A jolly place for beers and skittles.• The occasional pint of beer at skittles night is allowed too.• Trueman's show was an homage to pub sports-bar billiards, darts, skittles and shove ha'penny.• With a last desperate heave the steel door slammed shut, slicing off the row of fingers like falling skittles.• He was almost without shoulders, reminding Shamlou of a tenpin skittle.skit·tle nounChineseSyllable
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skittle
skit‧tle /ˈskɪtl/
noun
1. skittles [uncountable] a British game in which a player tries to knock down objects shaped like bottles by rolling a ball at them
2. [countable] one of the objects you roll the ball at in the game of skittles
skit‧tle /ˈskɪtl/
noun1. skittles [uncountable] a British game in which a player tries to knock down objects shaped like bottles by rolling a ball at them
2. [countable] one of the objects you roll the ball at in the game of skittles