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Fives

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A game similar to court-tennis; the hand, however, is used instead of a racket. Said to be so called because the game is three fives (15).

“He forgot that cricket and fives are capital training for tennis.”—T. Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford, chap. ii.

A bunch of fives. The fist, in which the five fingers are bound in a bunch.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Fisk (in Hudibras)
Fitz (Norman)
Fitz-Fulke (Hebē)
Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge University)
Five
Five-minute Clause
Five Nations (The)
Five Points (The)
Five Wits
Fiver (A)
Fives
Fix
Fixed Air
Fixed Oils
Fixed Stars
Fixt (The)
Flaccus
Flag. (Danish, flag.)
Flag, Flags
Flag Lieutenant (A)
Flag-officer