The word "skittle" is correct in written English.
It can be used to refer to a type of candy or a game involving knocking down pins.
Example: "The children enjoyed playing skittles at the fair."
Alternatives: "Candy" or "Pin bowling."
"He would say, 'I'm thinking, I'm thinking.' And I would go: 'No you're not, you're just staying up!'" Strummer was a regular in the village working men's club ("There's a skittle alley and he threatened to join the skittle team once") and was always heading out to see local friends ("He'd say: 'I'm going to see my mate the barman,' or my mate the farmer or the tractor driver.
This wooden skittle set is particularly gorgeous and will provide lots of fun hours as little ones try to knock down all six figures with one of the two balls.
"Skittle Alley (Ninepins)" finds a friendly competition in a piano trio that Mozart supposedly composed during a bowling party.
Batting first, West Indies made 137 for six wickets from its 20 overs and then returned to skittle out the hosts for 101 runs in 18.4 overs.
England probably need to skittle the hosts twice in little more than a day and a half.
But Blood I found exhilarating and so enjoyable I have that strange possessive love for it that makes me want to beat anyone who says different to death with a skittle.
Among other things, the select committee confirmed the reality of Walker's accounts of gross and gruesome scenes in churchyards and vaults: I have seen them play at what is called skittles; put up bones and take skulls and knocked them down; stick up bones in the ground and throw a skull at them as you would a skittle-ball.
Now, with her skittle-like stumps, she ticks off the relatives they killed: her parents-in-law, her brother-in-law, her pregnant sister, her niece.Villagers say they can distinguish different factions by their actions.
Ashton might have become the first English hat-trick scorer against Australia, or at least set up a colleague, had he not been caught by O'Connor and Mitchell after one of a series of skittle-scattering bursts by the other wing, Mark Cueto, who did everything but end his 15-Test wait for a try.
His ferocious straight drives scattered the non-striker, umpire and bowler like so many skittles.
They have been set 366 to win, which sounds unlikely after they were skittled for 134 first time around.
