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noun. A short, straight, stiff piece of wire with a blunt head and a sharp point, used especially for fastening.

noun. Something, such as a safety pin, that resembles such a piece of wire in shape or use.

noun. A whit; a jot.

noun. A slender, usually cylindrical piece of wood or metal for holding or fastening parts together, or serving as a support for suspending one thing from another, as.

noun. A thin rod for securing the ends of fractured bones.

noun. A peg for fixing the crown to the root of a tooth.

noun. A cotter pin.

noun. The part of a key stem entering a lock.

noun. One of the pegs securing the strings and regulating their tension on a stringed instrument.

noun. A belaying pin.

noun. A thole pin.

noun. An ornament fastened to clothing by means of a clasp.

noun. A rolling pin.

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noun. One of the wooden clubs at which the ball is aimed in bowling.

noun. A flagstick.

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noun. The legs.

noun. A lead on a device that plugs into a socket to connect the device to a system.

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noun. Any of the pegs on the platen of a printer, which engage holes at the edges of paper.

noun. Any of the styluses that form a dot matrix on a printer.

noun. Any of the small metal prongs at the end of a connector that fit into the holes in a port.

transitive verb. To fasten or secure with or as if with a pin or pins.

transitive verb. To transfix.

transitive verb. To place in a position of trusting dependence.

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transitive verb. To hold fast; immobilize.

transitive verb. To win a fall from in wrestling.

transitive verb. To give (a woman) a fraternity pin in token of attachment.

adjective. Having a grain suggestive of the heads of pins. Used of leather.

phrasal verb. To fix or establish clearly.

phrasal verb. To force (someone) to give firm opinions or precise information.

phrasal verb. To attribute (a crime) to (someone).

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.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. A tapered wooden pin having a split in the small end, in which a wedge is inserted to keep the pin from falling out.

noun. 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.

noun. A peg or bolt serving to keep a wheel on its axle; a linch pin.

noun. A peg on the side of a boat, serving to keep the oar in place; a thole. Also called thole-pin, boat-pin.

noun. A peg of a stringed musical instrument. See peg, 1 .

noun. A peg used to stop a hole.

noun. In machinery, a short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.