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pin-setter

pin-setter is the alternative form of pinsetter.

Meaning of pinsetter

Noun

pinsetter (plural pinsetters)

  1. (originally) 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.”2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 92
  2. 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 […]1985, Stephen King, Nona

Forms of pin-setter

pluralpin-setters

Questions about pin-setter

What is pin-setter the alternative form of?
Pin-setter is the alternative form of pinsetter.

Words near pin-setter in the dictionary

  1. pin-pointing
  2. pin-points
  3. pin-prick
  4. pin-pricked
  5. pin-pricks
  6. pin-setter
  7. pin-setters
  8. pin-sharp
  9. pin-stripe
  10. pin-striped
  11. pin-stripes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pin-setter (page history and authors); pinsetter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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