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单词 corking-pin
释义

corking-pinn.

Forms: Also 1600s calkin, cawking, 1700s corkin pin.
Etymology: Apparently corrupted < cawking, calkin n., as spelt by the pinmakers in 1690. Origin unknown.
Obsolete.
‘A pin of the largest size’ (Johnson).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg > other types of pin or peg
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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
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corking-pin?1690
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?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).
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