Home › Words › P › pinsetterpinsetterpinsetter means the person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, pinsetter ranks #2,709 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom pin + setter.nounThe person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.e.g.““I was working as a pinsetter in a bowling alley down in Tampa.”” — 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 92:The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.e.g.“They have twelve lanes of candlepin bowling with cranky automatic pinsetters that usually take the last three days of the week off […]” — 1985, Stephen King, Nona:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.pinsetting 84% match — The clearing and resetting of fallen pins in tenpin bowling. vs pinsetter →pinspotter 79% match — Synonym of pinsetter (“person or machine that resets fallen pins”). vs pinsetter →pinspotting 68% match — Synonym of pinsetting. vs pinsetter →bowler 64% match — One who engages in the sport of bowling. vs pinsetter →tenpins 63% match — A game, a form of bowling, played with ten pins as the target. vs pinsetter →candlepin 62% match — A kind of cylindrical tenpin used in a North American regional form of bowling. vs pinsetter →ninepin 62% match — The wooden pin used in the game of ninepins; a skittle. vs pinsetter →tenpin 61% match — Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling. vs pinsetter →