Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a game resembling handball;
played on a court with a front wall and two side walls;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fives \Fives\ (f[imac]vz), n. pl.
A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis;
-- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to
the game. --Smart.
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Fives court, a place for playing fives.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fives \Fives\, n. [See Vives.]
A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
--Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fives
n 1: a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front
wall and two side walls