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# ninepins

«ninepins» in Mova's school dictionary: **rolled at nine wooden pins set up in a diamond shape, to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ninepins; the game is also called «ninepin»)

### meaning for a pupil

A game in which a ball is rolled at nine wooden pins set up in a diamond shape, to knock them down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninepins/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, a game played by skeletons or giants, where the nine pins are set up and knocked over.

### examples

- We played ninepins at the fair and knocked down six pins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninepins/#x1)
- The men set up nine pins and began to play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninepins/#x2)
- Ninepins is like skittles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninepins/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths, except that a set of ninepins has nine pins in it.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ninepins» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninepins/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.