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Meaning Of Pin

  1. v. t.
    To peen.
  2. v. t.
    To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  3. n.
    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.
  4. n.
    Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
  5. n.
    Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
  6. n.
    That which resembles a pin in its form or use
  7. n.
    A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
  8. n.
    A linchpin.
  9. n.
    A rolling-pin.
  10. n.
    A clothespin.
  11. n.
    A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
  12. n.
    The tenon of a dovetail joint.
  13. n.
    One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
  14. n.
    The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
  15. n.
    Mood; humor.
  16. n.
    Caligo. See Caligo.
  17. n.
    An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
  18. n.
    The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
  19. n.
    To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.



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