Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pinder or pound-master.
- noun One who pins or fastens with a pin.
- noun A pinmaker.
- noun An apron with a bib, kept in place by pinning; a pinafore.
- noun A woman's head-dress, having long flaps hanging down the sides of the cheeks, worn during the early part of the eighteenth century: generally in the plural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who pins or impounds cattle. See
pin , v. t. - noun One who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins.
- noun obsolete, obsolete A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
- noun obsolete, obsolete An apron with a bib; a pinafore.
- noun obsolete A cloth band for a gown.
- noun A pin maker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofpin ; one who pins. - noun obsolete One who pins or impounds cattle.
- noun A headdress like a
cap , with longlappets .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman's cap with two long flaps pinned on
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of these was a sturdy middle-aged man -- whose long white "pinner" was somewhat finer and cleaner than the wraps of the others, and whose jacket underneath had a presentable marketing aspect -- the master-dairyman, of whom she was in quest, his double character as
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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The opponent is polarized by the pinner, the member designated to pin down the official to yes-or-no answers.
Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010
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The opponent is polarized by the pinner, the member designated to pin down the official to yes-or-no answers.
Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010
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She had on a black velvet gown, and a white pinner and apron, and a very high bridge to her nose (which is a sure mark of high breeding), and a large pair of white spectacles on it, which made her look rather odd: but it was the ancient fashion of her house.
The Water Babies 2007
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I'm a loser! it's christmas night and i just smoked a joint by myself - it was just a pinner, but still ... not cool.
withkerth Diary Entry withkerth 2000
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She had on a black velvet gown, and a white pinner and apron, and a very high bridge to her nose (which is a sure mark of high breeding), and a large pair of white spectacles on it, which made her look rather odd;
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Squire you can find Swift Nicks for him, and they'll fill your pinner with guineas.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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We found out sweet Nance Lousely, and filled her pinner full of guineas after all, and left her tearful and happy.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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"Ah-dudda pinner!" he screams, clutching Nannie with one hand and pointing furiously with the other.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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He wore the ordinary white pinner and leather leggings of a dairy-farmer when milking, and his boots were clogged with the mulch of the yard; but this was all his local livery.
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