duckpins
- n a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider
- n a bowling pin that is short and squat by comparison with a tenpin
- There he sets up housekeeping with an island mate (throughout the tale Ben knocks the women over like duckpins and rather enjoys saying so) and becomes something of a chieftain.
- He'll not out-nifty anybody, but with his size he bowls over the de fense like duckpins.