nineholes
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nineholes (uncountable)
- (games, historical) A game in which each player bowls a ball towards nine holes in a board or the ground, scoring points according to which hole the ball enters.
- Coordinate term: pigeonholes
- 1612, Michael Drayton, “The Fourteenth Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 227:
- Nine-holes on the heath