单词 | corking-pin |
释义 | † corking-pinn. Obsolete. ‘A pin of the largest size’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg > other types of pin or peg shackle-pin1446 corking-pin?1690 drawing pin1812 eye ring1836 pound pins1838 coupling-pin1874 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > pin pina1275 middlings1543 minikin1574 corking-pin?1690 lill1882 ?1690 Pinmakers' Case in oppos. to Killigrew's Bill (Broadside, Brit. Mus.) Double long whites alias Calkins. ?1690 Case or Petit. of Pinmakers (London) (Broadside, Brit. Mus.) Double Long Whites, al. Cawkings. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. v. 91 A Corking-pin that stuck in the good Gentlewoman's Stomacher. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 207 I could hear two or three corking pins fall out of the curtain. 1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 16 I gave my German a challenge... Sir Luke. To drive a corkin pin into the calves of our legs. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. vi. 183 Cristal Nixon..had..secured it [his riding-skirt] with large corking-pins. 1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg i, in New Monthly Mag. 60 98 It pierced her heart like a corking-pin. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. xvii. 249 Some insect, which he was impaling on a corking-pin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.?1690 |
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