Definitions for: Fives

[n] (British) a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Fives court, a place for playing fives.

Fives, n. [See Vives.]
A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
--Shak.

See Also: court game