†b. to take a person down a pin and variants: to lower a person's view of his or her own status or ability; to humble, chasten. Cf. pegn.1 3a. Obsolete.
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a1624 Bp. M. SmithSerm. (1632) 188 They..went more roundly and roughly to worke with them, taking them downe a pinne or two lower.
1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 452 I am confident we shall bring them a pin lower.