Fives
[faɪvz]
Definition
(noun.) a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls.
Typist: Sam--From WordNet
Definition
(n. pl.) A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.
(n.) A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
Typist: Shirley
Definition
n. (Shak.) vives a disease of horses.
n.pl. a game of handball played in a roomy court against a wall chiefly at the great public schools of England.
Checked by Edwin
Examples
- Three hundred fives. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- On ordinary working-days she braided it in threes; on ordinary Sundays in fours; at Maypolings, gipsyings, and the like, she braided it in fives. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Look what the funds were on the 1st of March--what the French fives were when I bought for the count. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Sophia