Ninepin
['nainpin]
Definition
(noun.) a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you play ninepins, denotes that you are foolishly wasting your energy and opportunities. You should be careful in the selection of companions. All phases of this dream are bad.
Editor: Moore
Examples
- And there's no more benevolence bubbling out of him, than out of a ninepin. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Don't ye let me down so, Father; I feel no bigger than a ninepin after it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He knocked you over, and would have finished you, but for Dick, who took a pot shot, and bowled him over like a ninepin. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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