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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

... soon." The editor smiled broadly, and Paul realized that the humor in those pin-point eyes ...

— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach

... it who called themselves "The Royal Reubens," and were headed by a bookbinder named Ned Hopkins. Some one started a branch of the Order in Napoleon, O., and among the members was Charles E. Reynolds, of that town. The badge of the society was a peculiarly shaped gold pin. Reynolds and Hopkins never met, and had no acquaintance with each other. When the war broke out, Hopkins enlisted in Battery H, First Ohio Artillery, and was sent to the Army of the Potomac, where he was captured, in ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... young lady a pin with a pretty large head; and as Irene, amazed, looked inquiringly at him, he quickly tore off the head and showed her a small hollow ...

— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere

... more censors is but the cry for the man with the broom. Sometimes it is a matter as simple as when a child is scratching with a pin on a slate. While one would not have the child locked up by the chief of police, after five minutes of it almost every one wants to smack him till his little jaws ache. It is the very cold-bloodedness of the ...

— The Art Of The Moving Picture • Vachel Lindsay

... legs drawn into the body through a slit in the skin, and kept in place with a small skewer. Turn the tip of the wing over on the back. Cut off the neck, not the skin, close to the body, and after putting in the stuffing, fasten the skin of the neck to the back. Put strips of cloth round it, or pin it in a cloth, to keep it ...

— Carving and Serving • Mrs. D. A. Lincoln

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