kayles

noun

1. The game of skittles or ninepins.

   obsolete, uncountable

   Playing kayles, i.e. throwing a stick at ninepins, at Smithfield, 13th century.

2. A simple impartial game in combinatorial game theory, in which players take turns to knock out one pin or two adjacent pins from a line of imagined bowling pins.

   uncountable

Where it comes from

From Middle English keyles, plural of Middle English keyle (see Dutch kegel, German Kegel, Danish kegle, and Swedish kegla).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry kayles (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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