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Pin

noun

1.

A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment.

2.

When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat. Synonym: fall.

3.

Small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.. Synonym: peg.

4.

A number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts. Synonyms: personal identification number, PIN number.

5.

Informal terms for the leg. Synonyms: peg, stick.

6.

Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns. Synonym: pivot.

7.

Cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown. Synonym: pin tumbler.

8.

Flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green. Synonym: flag.

9.

A small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things.

10.

A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing. Synonyms: oarlock, peg, rowlock, thole, tholepin.

11.

A club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target. Synonym: bowling pin.

verb

(past & past part. pinned; pres. part. pinning)

1.

To hold fast or prevent from moving. Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, trap.

2.

Attach or fasten with pins or as if with pins. "Pin the blame on the innocent man"

3.

Pierce with a pin.

4.

Immobilize a piece.

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"Pin" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the Resurrection, went into the Church, there would have been an end of his association with them, unless he had found there the same faith. The fact of the matter is, there is not a place where you can stick a pin in, between the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the date of this letter, wide enough to admit of the rise of the faith in a Resurrection. We are necessarily forced by the very fact of the existence of the Church to the admission that the belief in the ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... taken a great fancy to me, Kent. He's a square old top, when you take him right. Had me over this afternoon, and we smoked a cigar together. When I told him that I looked in at your window last night and saw you going through a lot of exercises, he jumped up as if some one had stuck a pin in him. 'Why, I thought he was sick—bad!' he said. And I let him know there were better ways of making a sick man well than Cardigan's. 'Give them plenty to eat,' I said. 'Let 'em live normal,' I argued. 'Look at Kent, for instance,' I told ...

— The Valley of Silent Men • James Oliver Curwood

... pies. She went on clapping the rolling-pin into the crust, although she was very pale, and her heart ...

— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)

... half for a regular time of it. You ought to a seen us a doin' the side-shows. You see Louis knows 'em. The fat woman is there, but not an ounce bigger than Sal Johnson at Villaville, and she's part stuffed, for Louis stuck a pin in her while she was asleep, and she never flinched. The sea monster and the man with two bootblacks at each shoe, and just as tall as the shoetops, is not much bigger than Bill Mason to hum. And the four-legged woman is no good, fer Louis he pinched ...

— The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair - Their Observations and Triumphs • Charles McCellan Stevens (AKA 'Quondam')

... wooden Peccadillos &c.] Peccadillos were stiff pieces that went about the neck; and round about the shoulders, to pin the band, worn by persons nice in dressing; his ...

— Hudibras • Samuel Butler

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