candlepin

Other forms: candlepins

Definitions of candlepin
  1. noun
    a bowling pin that is thin by comparison with a tenpin
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    type of:
    bowling pin, pin
    a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
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