pigeon-holes

A form of pigeonholes — An outdoor game played in the 17th and early 18th centuries in which each player bowls a ball towards targets (probably small compartments).

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nounpigeon-holes pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of pigeonholes (“outdoor game played in the 17th and early 18th centuries in which each player bowls a ball towards targets”).

    [Godfrey] Speed[well]. […] [H]ave you ſuch gold to give? / [Innocent] Lamb[skin]. Yes, yes, has vvon it betting at the bovvling Alleys, / Or at the Pigeon-holes in the Garden Alleyes.

    c. 1610–1614 (date written), William Rowley; [possibly also Thomas Heywood, George Wilkins], A New Wonder, a Woman never Vext. A Pleasant Conceited Comedy: […], London: […] G[eorge] P[urslowe] for Francis Constable, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act IV, page 52
noun
  1. pluralplural of pigeon-hole
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of pigeon-hole
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APA

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Chicago

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