Noun: kayles
Sample Sentences
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Playing kayles, i.e. throwing a stick at ninepins, at Smithfield, 13th century. [1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 239:]
Nouns inflected like kayles
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English keyles, plural of Middle English keyle (see Dutch kegel, German Kegel, Danish kegle, and Swedish kegla). See: Middle English Nouns '
keyle', Dutch Nouns '
kegel', German Nouns '
Kegel'.