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Bowlers' targets
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tenpins
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A game, a form of bowling, played with ten pins as the target. 2 (plural of tenpin English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ninepins \Nine"pins\, n. pl. A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling. Note: In the United States, ten pins are used for this game, which is therefore often called tenpins .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from ten + plural of pin (n.). From the number of pins to be knocked down.
Usage examples of tenpins.
In the earlier dreams, I contented myself with exploring these incredible cities, attempting to measure their angles -- so utterly dissimilar to anything I had ever learned from Professor Wogglebug's geometry pills -- and occasionally trying to lay out baseball diamonds and football fields for the perpetually unseen inhabitants, or to set up curiously-shaped stones in the formation of tenpins, which invariably toppled down because of the peculiar tilt of the ground long before I could bowl them over with the black cinder-like spheroids that sometimes lay about.