corking-pin

There is a certain little instrument, the first of those in use with scholars, and the meanest, considering the materials of it, whether it be a joint of wheaten straw, (the old Arcadian pipe) or just three inches of slender wire, or a stripped feather, or a corking-pin.

A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet 1909

Her aunt's left-off clothes had come to her in a big roll, fastened with a corking-pin.

Nina Balatka Anthony Trollope 1848

Sydney drew her to the light, opened the bows of his cockade, and displayed a corking-pin stuck upright under each bow.

Deerbrook Harriet Martineau 1839

For one of the pages having put my boat into the trough, the governess who attended Glumdalclitch very officiously lifted me up to place me in the boat, but I happened to slip through her fingers, and should have infallibly fallen down forty feet upon the floor, if by the luckiest chance in the world, I had not been stopped by a corking-pin that stuck in the good gentlewoman's stomacher; the head of the pin passed between my shirt and the waistband of my breeches, and thus I was held by the middle in the air till Glumdalclitch ran to my relief.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

Her aunt’s left-off clothes had come to her in a big roll, fastened with a corking-pin.

Nina Balatka 2004

a corking-pin to run him through the lungs, and whose single kick could hoist him from Dover to Calais without yacht or wherry.

Peveril of the Peak 1822

"I attempted no sophistry with my cousin," said Hamilton, "and for that reason I think I have put the final corking-pin into our friendship.

The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

"La you there now!" said the Duke -- "The little animal is quite crazed, and defies a man who need ask no other weapon than a corking-pin to run him through the lungs, and whose single kick could hoist him from

Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801