A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game
{i} (Sports) British form of handball (played on a court with a front wall and walls on the sides); racket game that resembles squash: (Medicine) disease of the glands under the ear in horses
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