Crossword clues for tenpins
tenpins
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
Wiktionary
n. 1 A game, a form of bowling, played with ten pins as the target. 2 (plural of tenpin English)
WordNet
n. bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins [syn: tenpin bowling]
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.