tenpins

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Noun tenpin has 1 sense

tenpin - one of the bottle-shaped pins used in bowling
--₁ is a kind of bowling; bowling pin, pin; bowling; bowling pin, pin

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Tenpins

Noun:

Sense 1: A game played with ten wooden pins set in a triangle formation at one end of a long, narrow lane. The objective is to knock down as many pins as possible by rolling a heavy ball at them.

Example sentence: I love going bowling and trying to knock down all the tenpins with a single throw.

Noun:

Sense 2: The pins used in the game of tenpins.

Example sentence: The sound of the ball knocking down the tenpins echoed through the bowling alley.