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Definition of Bowling pin
1. Noun. A club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target.
Generic synonyms: Bowling Equipment
Specialized synonyms: Candlepin, Duckpin, Headpin, Kingpin, Ninepin, Skittle, Skittle Pin, Tenpin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowling Pin
Literary usage of Bowling pin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pool, Billards and Bowling Alleys as a Phase of Commercialized Amusements in by John Joseph Phelan (1919)
"Such licensee shall keep his license conspicuously posted in his billiard room
or bowling alleys; and all billiard and pocket billiard rooms, bowling, pin ..."
2. Asymmetric Marketing: Tossing the 'Chasm' in the Age of the Software Superpowers by Joseph E. Bentzel (2006)
"... tech marketers are encouraged to see each niche segment as a bowling pin that
must be knocked down, beginning with the head pin, or first pin. ..."
3. Manual of Physical Training: Games and Mass Competitions by Charles Herbert Keene (1914)
"An upright club or bowling pin, on which a handkerchief is loosely hung, is placed
on a center division line. On signal, the right end player from each ..."
4. Touchers and Rubs on Ye Anciente Royale Game of Bowles: A Series of Notes by Humphrey J. Dingley (1893)
"... Bowles, a country seat of the Stewart family ; the Bowl Inn, St. Giles ;
Bowling-Green Lane, Clerkenwell ; and Bowling-pin Alley, Chancery Lane. ..."
5. Henrik Krøyer's Publications on Pelagic Marine Copepoda (1838-1849) by Carl C. Damkaer, David M. Damkaer (1979)
"Posteriorly the thoracic section decreases considerably in thickness, so that
its shape resembles an inverted, blunted bowling pin. Five pairs of thoracic ..."
6. Scotland by David Whyte (1998)
"... Man of Storr stands like a giant's bowling pin, perched on the side of the hill.
It stands 160ft (49m) tall and is part of a landslip that has created ..."
7. Tanglefoot, an (Almost)) True Story of Civil Wars and Cities by Richard Connelly Miller (2005)
"She swung it again and again, but it might just as well have been a bowling pin.
The boys snickered; I remembered Millie's home-run swing launching Ellie ..."
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