单词 | pinblock |
释义 | pinblockn. A block of wood in which pins or pegs are fixed, spec. the wrest plank of a piano. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > wrest block or pin pinblock1704 wrest-pin1783 wrest block1787 wrest-plank1799 string-block1851 tuning-pin1877 hitch-pin1878 string-pin1889 1704 Dict. Rusticum sig. O4/1 Rowling and Beating, which is the beating it [sc. leather] on the Pin-block. 1738 in B. Trinder & J. Cox Yeomen & Colliers in Telford 1660–1750 (1980) 388 A pin Block & Board & Knives. 1802 T. Loud Brit. Patent 2591 2 The rest pin block. 1880 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 722/1 The tuning-pin screws..into the thick metal wrestpin-piece, and through it into the wooden wrestplank or pinblock. 1964 Tri City Herald (Pasco, Washington) 3 Feb. 3/6 The axes and sledge hammers shattered the piano in three minutes, but a metal pinblock took another three minutes to break up. 1991 Piano Q. Fall 7/2 (advt.) We discovered superior maple in Vermont for use in our pinblocks and action parts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1704 |
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