Ninepin

(noun.) a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles.

詹妮整理

• And there's no more benevolence bubbling out of him, than out of a ninepin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Don't ye let me down so, Father; I feel no bigger than a ninepin after it. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He knocked you over, and would have finished you, but for Dick, who took a pot shot, and bowled him over like a ninepin. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

霍华德编辑