English Explanatory Dictionary

kayles

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The game of skittles or ninepins.
  2. 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.
noun
  1. plural of kayle

Word forms

kayles kails

Etymology

From Middle English keyles, plural of Middle English keyle (see Dutch kegel, German Kegel, Danish kegle, and Swedish kegla).

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