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English
Etymology
From nine + holes.
Noun
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: for M Lownes; I Browne; I Helme; I Busbie, →OCLC, page 227:Nine-holes on the heath