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I have found them in a manga. It is a dialogue discussing to the third person
going into a Pachinko shop.

Here is the full sentence.

> ジョーがやった台【だい】はガラスがはずしてあっただと

What do the words やった台 and はずしてあった mean?
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What do the words 「やった台」 and 「はずしてあった」 mean?
* やった  
It's the past (or perfect) form of a verb やる. This word doesn't contain more
meaning than "do" does, but compared with する, it slightly emphasizes that the
action involves physical movement. According to your context, it'd mean
"played" here.

  * 台【だい】  
That's the way we casually call _machine_ like in "slot machine".

  * はずしてあった  
You can refer
[here](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/teform#part4) for this
grammatical construction. One point is: the `V + てある` pattern always requires
a transitive verb's active form in V's position, but V is not necessarily what
the subject of the sentence has done.
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台 in this context is a short for パチンコ台, a Pachinko machine. やった is the past
tense of やる, a verb "to play" in this context. Thus the topic of the sentense
is "The Machine which Joe played". ガラス is a glass panel which is placed on the
front of a machine. はずしてあった is the past [～てある
form](http://www.imabi.net/l30tearu.htm) of a verb 外す, to remove. Thus the
main sentence is "the front glass had been removed (at that time)". だと is a
short for だと言うのか？, which is a rhetorical question "Are you saying that...?".
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