kayles

alternative kails

1. dialectalobsoleteuncountableThe game of skittles or ninepins.

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

   1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 239

2. uncountablecomputingA 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.

1. pluralplural of kayle