pinsetter
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editpinsetter (plural pinsetters)
- (bowling, originally) The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.
- 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 92:
- “I was working as a pinsetter in a bowling alley down in Tampa.”
- (bowling) The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.
- 1985, Stephen King, Nona:
- They have twelve lanes of candlepin bowling with cranky automatic pinsetters that usually take the last three days of the week off […]