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Pinner   Listen
noun
Pinner  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins.
2.
(Costume)
(a)
A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
(b)
An apron with a bib; a pinafore.
(c)
A cloth band for a gown. (Obs.) "With kerchief starched, and pinners clean."
3.
A pin maker.





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"Pinner" Quotes from Famous Books



... bullets packed in sawdust. The charge was black powder in a paper bag, and you stuck it at the bottom end of the pipe and put a bit of fuse into the touch-hole—but, of course, you must take care it penetrates the charge. The shell-fuse has a pinner with a detonator with the right length of fuse shoved into it; you wrap some clay round the end of the fuse to stop the flash of the charge from detonating the shell. Well, then you load ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett
... of the dramatists of his time, but this is a poor plea for a man of great genius, whose business it is precisely to lead and not to follow. Nor is the explanation altogether accurate. In his play, the "Pinner of Wakefield," first printed in 1599, Robert Greene makes a hero, and a very stalwart one, of a mere pound-keeper, who proudly refuses knighthood at the hands of the king. There were other and earlier plays in vogue in Shakespeare's day treating of the triumphs of men of the people, one, ...
— Tolstoy on Shakespeare - A Critical Essay on Shakespeare • Leo Tolstoy


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