ten-pinsn.
/ˈtɛnpɪnz/ A game in which ten pins (see pin n.1 5c) or ‘men’ are set up to be bowled at; cf. ninepins n.; spec. (originally U.S.) a game so played, also called in England ‘American bowls’. Also, the pins with which this game is played; in singular. tenpin, one of these.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun]
kaylesc1325
skaylesa1566
ninepins1580
pin1580
skittles1634
kittle-pins1649
skayle-pins1656
nine pegs1675
four corners1730
Dutch pins1801
Dutch rubbers1801
long bowling1801
ten-pins1807
squails1847
ten-pin bowling1934
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood iv. 64 To play at loggets, nine holes, or ten pinnes.]
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 99 When Justice wink'd on every jovial Crew, And Ten-pins tumbled, in the Parson's View.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. vi. 208 Ten-Pins being a game of mingled chance and skill, invented when the legislature passed an act forbidding Nine-Pins.
1884 H. C. Bunner in Harper's Mag. Jan. 298/2 Base-ball and ten-pins are in no great favor.
1893 Nation (N.Y.) 20 July 54/2 Even a ten-pin must be set up before it is knocked down.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as ten-pin alley, ten-pin ball, ten-pin bowling.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > alley
ball-alley1440
alley1541
bowling-alley1555
bowl-alley1628
ninepin yard1665
ninepin alley1682
ten-pin alley1835
lane1960
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > ball
ten-pin ball1870
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun]
kaylesc1325
skaylesa1566
ninepins1580
pin1580
skittles1634
kittle-pins1649
skayle-pins1656
nine pegs1675
four corners1730
Dutch pins1801
Dutch rubbers1801
long bowling1801
ten-pins1807
squails1847
ten-pin bowling1934
1835 P. H. Nicklin Lett. Descr. Virginia Springs 23 The means of amusement at the Warm Springs, consist of a bagatelle table..a tin-pin alley [etc.].
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. vi. 208 A painted lamp directs you to the Bowling Saloon, or Ten-Pin alley.
1852 C. A. Bristed Upper Ten Thousand v. 117 Perhaps we shall find him at the ten-pin alley.
1868 M. H. Smith Sunshine & Shadow in N.Y. 218 The click of the billiard ball, and the booming of the ten-pin alley, are distinctly heard.
1870 O. Logan Before Footlights 120 Finely cut bits of paper, for fatal snowstorms; ten-pin balls, for the distant muttering of the storm.
1895 Outing 26 444/1 You rush to the bottom like a ten-pin ball sent spinning down its alley.
1934 A.B.C. Bulletin 25 Oct. 11/1 (heading) Tenpin Bowling—‘The Sport of Kings’.
1960 Observer 17 Jan. 3/3 Ten-pin bowling, as its sponsors call it, went to America with the planters and the pilgrims... The game that is being re~imported is hedged about with expensive equipment and social ballyhoo, but is simple enough in itself.
1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 90/1 Tenpin bowling has reached a stage where it can claim to be the largest participant sport in the world.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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