pin setter

A form of pinsetter — The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.

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Meanings

nounpin setter (plural pin setters)

plural pin setters

  1. alternativeAlternative form of pinsetter.

    The pin setter is activated as a result of the bowling ball contacting the cushion at the back of the pit.

    1982, Roscoe Hastings, Let's Go Bowling, page 8
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    The greatest advantage of automatic pin setters is that the individual pin setter frequently desires to cease work at midnight while the automatic pin setter can continue to all hours.

    1958, American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, Real Estate Appraisal Practice: Silver Anniversary Papers, page 632

    Bowling set has two 5-inch plastic balls and time-saving automatic pin setter that anyone can operate with little effort.

    1997, Thomas W. Holland, Girls' Toys of the Fifties and Sixties
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APA

pin setter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pin%20setter

MLA

“pin setter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pin%20setter. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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