Crossword clues for candlepin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Candlepin \Can`dle*pin`\, n. (Tenpins)
A form of bowling pin slender and nearly straight like a candle.
The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.
Wiktionary
n. (context bowling English) A kind of cylindrical tenpin used in a North American regional form of bowling.
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Usage examples of "candlepin".
Her father ran off, and the mother is the cocktail waitress at the Candlepin Castle.
The road took them past a traffic island, past the rickety Porterville Rec Center with its five lanes of candlepins, past a dead black Government Sales building with a large MAY IS CONFIRMYOURSEX MONTH sign in the window.
To anyone other than me, my lone ranger probably looked like a forty-odd-year-old off-duty photocopier I repairman on his way to play candlepins at the local bowling alley.
Candlepin Castle was only a five minute walk, but two minutes into it Ludwig realized his mistake in not driving.
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.