duckpin

[ duhk-pin ]

noun

1. Bowling. a short pin of relatively large diameter, used in a game resembling tenpins, and bowled at with small balls.
2. duckpins, (used with a singular verb) the game played with such pins.

Word History and Origins

Origin of duckpin¹

First recorded in 1905–10; so called from the pin's resemblance to the shape of a duck