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pinsetter

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pin·set·ter  (pnstr)
n.
An employee or a mechanical apparatus that sets up pins in a bowling alley.


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At one end of the center, a group of bowlers from the Wyoming prairie was knocking Õem down just as quickly as the automatic pinsetters could set Õem back up.
A closer inspection revealed a small piece of the pinsetter had come loose and fallen onto the lane just in front of the racked pins, acting as a ramp to send Helen''s ball airborne.
That little deaf kid who used to be a pinsetter at four bowling alleys growing up in Detroit -- straddling two lanes to set up pins for 10 cents a line -- couldn't be standing up here with the greats of the game being welcomed into their exclusive club.
 
 
 
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