pinsetter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.
noun
The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.
Example Sentences
- "“I was working as a pinsetter in a bowling alley down in Tampa.”"
- "They have twelve lanes of candlepin bowling with cranky automatic pinsetters that usually take the last three days of the week off […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *pinnaz Proto-West Germanic *pinn Old English pinn Middle English pinne English pin Proto-Indo-European *sed- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti Proto-Germanic *satjaną Proto-West Germanic *sattjan Old English settan Middle English setten Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English settere English setter English pinsetter From pin + setter.