Meaning & use
pin house
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UK/ˈpɪn haʊs/
US/ˈpɪn haʊs/
Meaning
nouncountablerareregional
A building or room where people play a traditional game of knocking down pins with a ball or stick.
Grammar: Countable: one pin house, two pin houses.
Patterns
- a pin house
- at the pin house
- go to the pin house
The old pin house at the end of the village is now a storage shed.
Every Friday, the men would gather at the pin house to play a few rounds.
The historical society is trying to restore the pin house as a museum.
Word forms
| plural | pin houses |
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Common combinations
- old pin house
- The old pin house still has its original wooden floor.
- visit the pin house
- We used to visit the pin house on summer evenings.
- pin house game
- The pin house game is similar to bowling but uses smaller pins.
Synonyms and how they differ
- bowling alley
- A bowling alley is a modern, commercial place for ten-pin bowling; a pin house is usually smaller and more traditional.
- skittle alley
- A skittle alley is a long narrow track for skittles, often inside a pub; a pin house is a building or room, not just the track.
Practice
What is a pin house?
Choose one answer.
A pin house is a building or room for playing a game with pins, not a factory or a literal house made of pins. The other options confuse the word with unrelated meanings of 'pin'.
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