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单词 wrest pin
释义

wrest pin


noun

peg (def. 5).

Origin of wrest pin

First recorded in 1780–90

Words nearby wrest pin

Wrens, wren-tit, wrest, wrestle, wrestling, wrest pin, wretch, wretched, Wrexham, wrick, wrier
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Example sentences from the Web for wrest pin

  • The strings passing through holes bored through the little bridges, called agraffes, or studs, turned upward toward the wrest-pin.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883|Various

British Dictionary definitions for wrest pin

wrest pin

noun

(on a piano, harp, etc) a pin around which one end of a string is wound: it may be turned by means of a tuning key to alter the tension of the string. In a piano the wrest pin is embedded in the wrest plank
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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