Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Candlepin \Can`dle*pin`\, n. (Tenpins)
      (a) A form of pin slender and nearly straight like a
          candle.
      (b) The game played with such pins; -- in form
          {candlepins}, used as a singular.

Source : WordNet®

candlepins
     n : a bowling game using slender bowling pins [syn: {candlepin
         bowling}]