Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In needle-point lace, small and fine raised parts of a design.
- In flaxspinning, to work (flax-yarn) on a pin of wood in a manner to increase its suppleness, when making the yarn up into bundles for packing.
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And note that if the bed be covered with cloth, there is needed a fur coverlet of small vair, but if it be covered with serge, or broidery, or pinwork of cendal, not. '
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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