pinsetter

noun

Etymology

From pin + setter.

  1. inherited from settere
  2. compounded as pinsetter — “pin + setter

Definitions

  1. The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.

    • “I was working as a pinsetter in a bowling alley down in Tampa.”
  2. The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin…

    The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.

    • They have twelve lanes of candlepin bowling with cranky automatic pinsetters that usually take the last three days of the week off […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA