Word.ws English Dictionary

pinsetters

pinsetters is the plural 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

Questions about pinsetters

What is pinsetters the plural of?
Pinsetters is the plural of pinsetter.

Words near pinsetters in the dictionary

  1. pinscreens
  2. pinseal
  3. pinsel
  4. pinsels
  5. pinsetter
  6. pinsetters
  7. pinsetting
  8. Pinsk
  9. Pinsker
  10. Pinskers
  11. Pinsky

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pinsetters (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pinsetters.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pinsetters. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.