Pin /(?)/
Pin
v. t.
- To peen. (Metal Working)
Pin
v. t.
- To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
Pin
n.
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A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.
With pins of adamant And chains they made all fast.
- Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
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Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
He . . . did not care a pin for her.
- That which resembles a pin in its form or use (Mach.)
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
- The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. [Obs.]
- Mood; humor. [Obs.]
- Caligo. See Caligo. (Med.)
- An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
- The leg; as, to knock one off his pins. [Slang]
Phrases & Compounds
- Banking pin
- a pin against which a lever strikes, to limit its motion.
- Pin drill
- a drill with a central pin or projection to enter a hole, for enlarging the hole, or for sinking a recess for the head of a bolt, etc.; a counterbore.
- Pin grass
- See Alfilaria.
- Pin hole
- a small hole made by a pin; hence, any very small aperture or perforation.
- Pin lock
- a lock having a cylindrical bolt; a lock in which pins, arranged by the key, are used instead of tumblers.
- Pin money
- an allowance of money, as that made by a husband to his wife, for private and personal expenditure.
- Pin rail
- a rail, usually within the bulwarks, to hold belaying pins. Sometimes applied to the fife rail. Called also pin rack.
- Pin wheel
- A contrate wheel in which the cogs are cylindrical pins
Pin
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Pinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Pinning
- To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
Phrases & Compounds
- To pin one's faith upon
- to depend upon; to trust to.