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candlepins

/ ˈkændəlˌpɪnz /

noun

(functioning as singular) a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley

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New England, the heart of smaller-sized duck-and candlepins. is giving way to the tenpin boom.

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