Meaning

A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening..

Definitions by Sense

1. A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
2. A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
3. A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
4. (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
5. A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
6. (informal, in the plural) A leg.
7. (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
8. A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.

Example Sentences

With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.

Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.

I'm not so good on my pins these days.

The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins.

The shot landed right on the pin.

For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at, Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.

the very pin of his heart cleft

Hee sett Promethius, on a merrye pynn, / Whoe dranke soe devillishly, that there he gott / A terrible heartburninge, […]

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• pins
• pinning
• pinned

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