Fives

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

fives
    n 1: a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front
         wall and two side walls

from 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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from 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.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Fives court}, a place for playing fives.
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