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▪ I. † pinner1 Obs.|ˈpɪnə(r)|
Also 5–7 pynner, (5 -ar).
[f. pin n.1 + -er1.]
A pinmaker.
c1400Destr. Troy 1591 Parnters, painters, pynners also. 1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 12 §1 Artificers of the said Realm.. Pointmakers, Pinners, Pursers, Glovers. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 9 Pynners, nedelers, and glasyers. 1611Florio, Agucchiarúolo,..a pinner or pinmaker. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. II. v. xv. 241/1 Pinners and Needlers. Foreign Pins and Needles being brought in about the Year 1597, did much prejudice these Callings. [1890Gross Gild Merch. II. 209 Pewterers, smiths, pinners, barbers.]
▪ II. pinner2 Now local.
[Another form of pinder, f. pin v.1 10 = pind v.]
An officer whose duty it is to impound stray beasts: = pinder.
1499Promp. Parv. (ed. Pynson), Pynnar of beestys. 1552Huloet, Pynner or empounder of cattell, inclusor. a1592Greene George-a-Greene Wks. (Rtldg.) 255/1 George-a-Greene Hight Pinner of merry Wakefield town. 1664Gouldman Dict., A pinner or pounder of cattel, inclusor. 1871Standard 4 Oct. 3 The town pinner,..[of] Stafford, left the town on Saturday afternoon to serve an execution for debt at a small farm near Stamdon Bridge.
▪ III. pinner3
[f. pin v.1 + -er1.]
One who or that which pins.
1. A coif with two long flaps, one on each side, pinned on and hanging down, and sometimes fastened at the breast; worn by women, esp. of rank, in the 17th and 18th centuries. Sometimes applied to the flaps as an adjunct of the coif. Now only Hist.
1652N. Riding Rec. V. 103 [Bill ignored against a woman for stealing a] pynner. 1664Pepys Diary 18 Apr., I saw..my Lady Castlemaine in a coach by herself, in yellow satin and a pinner on. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 465/1 Some term this sort of long eared Quoif by the name of a Pinner, or Laced Pinner. 1701Farquhar Sir H. Wildair i. i, The pinners are double ruffled with twelve plaits of a side. 1710Steele Tatler No. 212 ⁋3 A Treatise concerning Pinners, which I have some Hopes will contribute to the Amendment of the present Head-dresses. c1720Duke of Montagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 367 The women..wear four pinners with great ribbons between, and eight lappets hanging down behind. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 128 ⁋9 A pinner, the pride of Brussels, may be torn by a careless washer. 1816Scott Bl. Dwarf iii, The venerable old dame,..dressed in her coif and pinners.
2. dial. A pinafore or apron with a bib.[Perh. erroneous spelling of pinna, short for pinafore.] 1846Fairholt Costume in Eng. Gloss. 582 Pinner, an apron with a bib pinned in front of the dress. Its more modern name is pincloth and pinafore. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. II. 116 Pinner, a pinafore. Pincloth, a child's pinafore. Called also Pintidy and Pinner. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 363 Honest travelling have been so rascally abused since I was a boy in pinners. 1891― Tess xvii, He wore the ordinary white pinner..of a dairy-farmer when milking.
3. One who pins, fastens, or transfixes with a pin.
1828in Webster. 1845Mrs. Browning Lett. (1899) I. 137 All that roughness and rudeness of the sin of the boar-pinner. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 272/1 The ‘pinners-up’..are the men and women..who sell songs which they have ‘pinned’ to a sort of screen or large board, or..to a blank wall.
4. The workman who inserts the pins in the revolving cylinder of a barrel organ.
1896Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 336 To completely ‘set’ a cylinder takes an expert workman three days; then it is given to the ‘pinner’ who carefully hammers the pins into the places designated by the ‘setter’. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §648 Pinner..inserts, with pliers and pressing machine worked by treadle, steel pins in positions marked by music marker on revolving cylinder or roller of barrel organ. 1960Classification of Occupations (General Register Office) 84/2 Pinner.., barrel organ mfr. |