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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's definition.





- toe - - quoits - - shooting at the wand - - bowls - - ninepins - - attercop - - tomnoddy - - lazy lob - - crazy cob - - nippers -




A foolish or stupid person.

Orig., a discus; now, a flattish iron or other ring thrown in play to encircle a peg stuck in the ground or to come as close to it as possible, the game so played.

A spider.

Put for the foot as a whole or the point of the foot; also, the part of a shoe or stocking which covers the ____s; a part resembling a ____ or the ____s, in shape or position; the lower extremity or projection of anything, a point, tip, often identical with foot.

One who or that which nips; a device for nipping, as pincers or forceps; one of the great claws of a crustacean.

A game, common in Great Britain, in which the players rolled biased or weighted balls along the sward in a effort to bring them near as possible to a stationary ball called the jack; sometimes, skittles, ____, or ("American ____") tenpins.

A game played with nine wooden pins at which a ball is bowled to knock them down.

Lob. Old English for spider.

A shooting game that consisted of using a narrow slat as a target for archery

Cob. Old English for spider; also, cob-web.