kayles

noun

1. (dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)The game of skittles or ninepins.

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

2. (uncountable)A 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.
3. (form-of, plural)plural of kayle