Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A steel pin having a slight taper, preferably largest in diameter at about the middle of its length and tapering toward the ends: used in ship-building and structural work to force the punched holes in the material into line, so that a rivet or bolt can be inserted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mech.) A smooth drift. See
drift , n., 9.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun engineering A
smooth drift .
Etymologies
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drift + pin
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