Skittle Pool is pool with three balls and twelve little skittles, placed in order round the table.
A stake is determined on, and a price paid out of the pool for every skittle knocked over after striking a ball.
Recreation establishments are liberally provided for, and other means of recreation, such as bowling and skittle alleys, fives courts, plunge baths and cricket grounds, are given.
The best play is to throw the bowl with a round-handed swing of the arm, so as to strike the nearest skittle at the right of its upper third.
The ball then springs to the second skittle, and from this generally twists to the third, while the fourth skittle is sent down by the roll of the one first struck.
Skittle ball, a disk or flattish ball of wood for throwing at the pins in the game of skittles.
Skittle alley, an alley or court in which the game of skittles is played.
It is the ignorance of the green young man from the country as regards the wicked ways of London, that enables the skittle sharper to fleece him with ease and completeness.
One who entices another to play at a game at which cheating rules, such as card orskittle sharping—a buttoner.
Indulgence of the same duration in the amusement afforded by a good dry skittle ground.
I immediately formed a plan to get them out of the skittle ground, and then to lock the doors and keep them out of the public house, away from intoxicating liquors, of which they had already taken too much.
It is a ground for balloon flying and skittle playing, and just maintains itself above the very lowest, so as to be one of the most doubtful places of public resort.
The Office of Skittle Master was also contested in that year; the holder of the place being opposed by one whose claim to the position seems to be that he had a wife and one child.
A skittle club played in the garden or in a covered pavilion adjoining.
You skittle home, and to-morrow maybe I can take a couple hours off to hear your tale of woe.
I'll skittle into my frock and go down to that flowery, bowery piazza again.
The sides of the skittle ground were decorated by the hanging of table covers, curtains, pieces of carpet, sheets, or anything else that would cover over the walls.
The only one I can recollect was when a professor of mesmerism and clairvoyance came down and took the skittle ground at the back of the "George and Dragon.
The peasants play it on Sunday afternoons, and the dignified merchant has his skittle club and spends an evening there once a week.
Most inns have a skittle alley, for skittles are still played in Germany by all classes.
Clumsy people should not be trusted in a skittle alley," she added in a mild way, which seemed to be peculiarly exasperating to Dame Harrison's irascible temper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skittle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
