To fasten or secure with a bolt or peg.
To fasten with a pin or pins.
To transfix with or as with a pin; hence, to seize and hold fast in the same spot or position.
To nab; seize; steal.
To swage by striking with the peen of a hammer, as in splaying an edge of an iron hoop to give it a flare corresponding to that of the cask.
To clog the teeth of: as, to pin a file: said of particles which adhere so firmly to the teeth of a file that they have to be picked out with a piece of steel wire.
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In archery, a place in a bowstaff where a lateral twig has been trimmed off. Such places are weak if the twig is out off flush.
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In ccram., a small three-sided rod of fire-clay inserted in the side of the saggar to support the ware (as a plate) while it is fired in the kiln.
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A tapered wooden pin having a split in the small end, in which a wedge is inserted to keep the pin from falling out.
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A wooden or metal peg or bolt used to fasten or hold a thing in place, fasten things together, or as a point of attachment or support.
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A peg or bolt serving to keep a wheel on its axle; a linch pin.
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A peg on the side of a boat, serving to keep the oar in place; a thole. Also called thole-pin, boat-pin.
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A peg of a stringed musical instrument. See peg, 1 .
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A peg used to stop a hole.
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In machinery, a short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.