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Old bowling alley employee
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pinsetter
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In bowling , a pinsetter , or pinspotter , was originally a person who manually reset bowling pins to their correct position, cleared fallen pins, and returned bowling balls to players. Probably due to the nature of the work (low-paid, often part-time, ...
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n. 1 (context bowling originally English) The person that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling 2 (context bowling English) The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling
Usage examples of pinsetter.
The ball dropped into the gutter and he made another digusted noise as the pinsetter knocked them back.
Hollis sometimes wondered if the day would ever come when he would be watching the automatic pinsetters while waiting for an American nuclear strike to obliterate central Moscow above.
They have twelve lanes of candlepin bowling with cranky automatic pinsetters that usually take the last three days of the week off, a few ancient pinball machines, a juke featuring the greatest hits of I957, three Brunswick pool tables, and a Coke-and-chips counter where you also rent bowling shoes that look like they might have just come off the feet of dead winos.