nine holesn.

Brit.

/ˈnʌɪnˌhəʊlz/, U.S.

/ˈnaɪnˌ(h)oʊlz/

Forms: 1500s nine hooles, 1500s nyneholes, 1500s–1600s ninehole (in attributive use), 1500s– nine-holes; also Scottish pre-1700 nineholis, pre-1700 ninehollis, pre-1700 nyneholis, pre-1700 nyneholls.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nine adj., hole n.

Etymology: < nine adj. + the plural of hole n. With sense 1 compare German Nolochen , variant of Neun Löcher , lit. ‘nine holes’, three men's morris. With sense 2 compare nine-eyes n.

a. Any of various games of skill involving nine target holes, spots, etc.; spec. (a) a game in which players try to roll small balls into nine holes made in the ground, each hole having a separate scoring value; (b) a similar game played with a wooden bridge or board having nine holes or arches; cf. trunk n. 16; (c) a game similar to noughts and crosses, using movable counters on a square grid of nine points. Cf. merels n.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun]

troll-madam1572

nine holes1573

pigeonholes1608

small trunksc1610

hole1611

trucks1671

roly-poly1707

Mississippi1728

bumble-puppy1794

bubble the justice1801

bagatelle1819

cockamaroo1850

pigs in clover1889

pinball1911

pinball game1911

Skee-Ball1923

Corinthian bagatelle1933

pachinko1949

1573 New Custome i. i. sig. Aiij^v Playinge at coytes, or nine hooles, or shooting at buttes.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. F4 Boies, that..fell vpon one of their fellowes, and beate him most cruelly for playing false playe at nine holes.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 73 In time he may haply learne to play at ninehole-nidgets.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiv. 227 Th' vnhappy wags, which let their Cattell stray, At Nine-holes on the heath whilst they together play.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. N^v Raspe playes at Nine-holes; and 'tis known he gets Many a Teaster by his game, and bets.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 67/2 He beareth sable, a 9 Hole Board or, edged and linned of the first.

1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins II. xvi. 192 One [game] like our Bowls on a Bowling-green, and at somewhat like nine Holes.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. 205 I have formerly seen a pastime practised by School-boys, called nine-holes.

1859 A. L. Elwyn Gloss. Supposed Americanisms 80 Nine-holes, Nares speaks of this as a rural game, played by making nine holes in the ground, in the angles and sides of a square, and placing stones and other things upon them, according to certain rules. A game called nine-holes was common at the school, in New England, where I was educated; it..does not appear precisely the same.

1873 J. Harland & T. T. Wilkinson Lancs. Legends 133 Nine-holes was a boyish game played at the beginning of the 17th century.

1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes x. 128 A game called Nine Holes was popular in the early seventeenth century and again in the eighteenth, after skittles had been banned.

1981 G. Brandreth Everyman's Indoor Games 119 Nine holes is played on a simple board.

1994 B. Gilroy Sunlight on Sweet Water 133 We played marbles and marble-games too. A favourite of all the children was ‘Nine Holes’.

b. U.S. colloquial. in the nine holes (also hole): in a difficult position or situation. Now rare.

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1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana xiv. 126 We, who should be considering the Honour of our Country, and that it goes now or never upon our hand, whether it shall be ridiculous to all the world; are going to nine-holes.]

1825 L. M. Child Rebels vi. 72 You have been playing a game of selfishness and guilt all your life..and now that you are completely in the nine-holes, you will not throw your knave of trumps on the last lift.

1863 ‘E. Kirke’ My Southern Friends 76 He owned har [sc. a slave] till he got in the nineholes one day, and sold har to the Gin'ral.

1877 Congress. Rec. 3 Nov. 230/1 We have put the gentleman in the ‘nine-holes’; and there we intend to keep him.

1890 Congress. Rec. 12 June 6002/1 The bill..has passed the Senate, and, to use a Western expression, it will put me ‘in the nine-hole’ if I do not get it through.

1906 B. L. Ridley Battles & Sketches Army Tennessee 295 The only time he ever got Johnston apparently in ‘a nine hole’ was at Resaca, on May 15, 1864.

2. British regional. A lamprey.Cf. nine-eyed eel n. at nine-eyed adj. Compounds, nine-eyes n. 2.

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the world > animals > fish > superclass Agnatha > [noun] > suborder Petromyzontoidei or genus Petromyzon > member of (lamprey)

lamprey1297

seven-eyes1496

lamprel1526

weasel1601

stone-grig1666

lamper-eel1709

lamprey-eel1726

stone-sucker1753

nine-eyed eel1811

nine-eyes1818

nine holesa1825

spanker-eel1846

seven-holes1853

petromyzontoid1861

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Nine-holes, a fish of the lamprey kind, not uncommon in our Fen ditches.

1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 360 Lampern,..nine-eyes, nine-holes, the eye and nasal orifice appear to be here counted.

1988 Guardian (Nexis) 21 May The old recipes always refer to the raw material as either lamprey or lamperns, but away from the cookery books there are a variety of names—lamper-eel, nine-eyes..nine holes.

3. Scottish. A piece of beef cut from below the breast. Sc. National Dict. s.v. records the sense as still in use in Angus, Perthshire, and in western and southern Scotland in 1964.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > other cuts or parts

tild1342

ox foota1398

oxtaila1425

neat's foot?c1450

beef-flick1462

sticking piece1469

ox-tonguea1475

aitch-bone1486

fore-crop?1523

sirloin1525

mouse-piece1530

ox-cheek1592

neat's tongue1600

clod1601

sticking place1601

skink1631

neck beef1640

round1660

ox-heart1677

runner1688

sticking draught1688

brisket-beef1697

griskin1699

sey1719

chuck1723

shin1736

gravy beef1747

baron of beef1755

prime rib1759

rump and dozen1778

mouse buttock1818

slifta1825

nine holes1825

spauld-piece1828

trembling-piece1833

shoulder-lyar1844

butt1845

plate1854

plate-rand1854

undercut1859

silver-side1861

bed1864

wing rib1883

roll1884

strip-loin1884

hind1892

topside1896

rib-eye1926

buttock meat1966

onglet1982

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Nine-holes,..that piece of beef that is cut out immediately below the brisket or breast, denominated from the vacancies left by the ribs.

1826 M. Dods Man. II. 207 Choose the thin part of the flank, or what in Scotland is called the nine-holes, or runner.

1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 98 For boiling pieces of beef, the runner, the nineholes, and the breast are the best.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 169 The nineholes..consists of layers of fat and lean without any bone.

a1899 D. Nicolson MS Coll. Caithness Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 274/2 Nine-holes [the cut of beef below the brisket or breast].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nine holes
释义	nine holesn. Brit. /ˈnʌɪnˌhəʊlz/, U.S. /ˈnaɪnˌ(h)oʊlz/ Forms: 1500s nine hooles, 1500s nyneholes, 1500s–1600s ninehole (in attributive use), 1500s– nine-holes; also Scottish pre-1700 nineholis, pre-1700 ninehollis, pre-1700 nyneholis, pre-1700 nyneholls. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nine adj., hole n. Etymology: < nine adj. + the plural of hole n. With sense 1 compare German Nolochen , variant of Neun Löcher , lit. ‘nine holes’, three men's morris. With sense 2 compare nine-eyes n. 1. a. Any of various games of skill involving nine target holes, spots, etc.; spec. (a) a game in which players try to roll small balls into nine holes made in the ground, each hole having a separate scoring value; (b) a similar game played with a wooden bridge or board having nine holes or arches; cf. trunk n. 16; (c) a game similar to noughts and crosses, using movable counters on a square grid of nine points. Cf. merels n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun] troll-madam1572 nine holes1573 pigeonholes1608 small trunksc1610 hole1611 trucks1671 roly-poly1707 Mississippi1728 bumble-puppy1794 bubble the justice1801 bagatelle1819 cockamaroo1850 pigs in clover1889 pinball1911 pinball game1911 Skee-Ball1923 Corinthian bagatelle1933 pachinko1949 1573 New Custome i. i. sig. Aiij^v Playinge at coytes, or nine hooles, or shooting at buttes. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. F4 Boies, that..fell vpon one of their fellowes, and beate him most cruelly for playing false playe at nine holes. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 73 In time he may haply learne to play at ninehole-nidgets. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiv. 227 Th' vnhappy wags, which let their Cattell stray, At Nine-holes on the heath whilst they together play. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. N^v Raspe playes at Nine-holes; and 'tis known he gets Many a Teaster by his game, and bets. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 67/2 He beareth sable, a 9 Hole Board or, edged and linned of the first. 1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins II. xvi. 192 One [game] like our Bowls on a Bowling-green, and at somewhat like nine Holes. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. 205 I have formerly seen a pastime practised by School-boys, called nine-holes. 1859 A. L. Elwyn Gloss. Supposed Americanisms 80 Nine-holes, Nares speaks of this as a rural game, played by making nine holes in the ground, in the angles and sides of a square, and placing stones and other things upon them, according to certain rules. A game called nine-holes was common at the school, in New England, where I was educated; it..does not appear precisely the same. 1873 J. Harland & T. T. Wilkinson Lancs. Legends 133 Nine-holes was a boyish game played at the beginning of the 17th century. 1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes x. 128 A game called Nine Holes was popular in the early seventeenth century and again in the eighteenth, after skittles had been banned. 1981 G. Brandreth Everyman's Indoor Games 119 Nine holes is played on a simple board. 1994 B. Gilroy Sunlight on Sweet Water 133 We played marbles and marble-games too. A favourite of all the children was ‘Nine Holes’. b. U.S. colloquial. in the nine holes (also hole): in a difficult position or situation. Now rare. ΚΠ 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana xiv. 126 We, who should be considering the Honour of our Country, and that it goes now or never upon our hand, whether it shall be ridiculous to all the world; are going to nine-holes.] 1825 L. M. Child Rebels vi. 72 You have been playing a game of selfishness and guilt all your life..and now that you are completely in the nine-holes, you will not throw your knave of trumps on the last lift. 1863 ‘E. Kirke’ My Southern Friends 76 He owned har [sc. a slave] till he got in the nineholes one day, and sold har to the Gin'ral. 1877 Congress. Rec. 3 Nov. 230/1 We have put the gentleman in the ‘nine-holes’; and there we intend to keep him. 1890 Congress. Rec. 12 June 6002/1 The bill..has passed the Senate, and, to use a Western expression, it will put me ‘in the nine-hole’ if I do not get it through. 1906 B. L. Ridley Battles & Sketches Army Tennessee 295 The only time he ever got Johnston apparently in ‘a nine hole’ was at Resaca, on May 15, 1864. 2. British regional. A lamprey.Cf. nine-eyed eel n. at nine-eyed adj. Compounds, nine-eyes n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superclass Agnatha > [noun] > suborder Petromyzontoidei or genus Petromyzon > member of (lamprey) lamprey1297 seven-eyes1496 lamprel1526 weasel1601 stone-grig1666 lamper-eel1709 lamprey-eel1726 stone-sucker1753 nine-eyed eel1811 nine-eyes1818 nine holesa1825 spanker-eel1846 seven-holes1853 petromyzontoid1861 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Nine-holes, a fish of the lamprey kind, not uncommon in our Fen ditches. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 360 Lampern,..nine-eyes, nine-holes, the eye and nasal orifice appear to be here counted. 1988 Guardian (Nexis) 21 May The old recipes always refer to the raw material as either lamprey or lamperns, but away from the cookery books there are a variety of names—lamper-eel, nine-eyes..nine holes. 3. Scottish. A piece of beef cut from below the breast. Sc. National Dict. s.v. records the sense as still in use in Angus, Perthshire, and in western and southern Scotland in 1964. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > other cuts or parts tild1342 ox foota1398 oxtaila1425 neat's foot?c1450 beef-flick1462 sticking piece1469 ox-tonguea1475 aitch-bone1486 fore-crop?1523 sirloin1525 mouse-piece1530 ox-cheek1592 neat's tongue1600 clod1601 sticking place1601 skink1631 neck beef1640 round1660 ox-heart1677 runner1688 sticking draught1688 brisket-beef1697 griskin1699 sey1719 chuck1723 shin1736 gravy beef1747 baron of beef1755 prime rib1759 rump and dozen1778 mouse buttock1818 slifta1825 nine holes1825 spauld-piece1828 trembling-piece1833 shoulder-lyar1844 butt1845 plate1854 plate-rand1854 undercut1859 silver-side1861 bed1864 wing rib1883 roll1884 strip-loin1884 hind1892 topside1896 rib-eye1926 buttock meat1966 onglet1982 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Nine-holes,..that piece of beef that is cut out immediately below the brisket or breast, denominated from the vacancies left by the ribs. 1826 M. Dods Man. II. 207 Choose the thin part of the flank, or what in Scotland is called the nine-holes, or runner. 1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 98 For boiling pieces of beef, the runner, the nineholes, and the breast are the best. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 169 The nineholes..consists of layers of fat and lean without any bone. a1899 D. Nicolson MS Coll. Caithness Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 274/2 Nine-holes [the cut of beef below the brisket or breast]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1573
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