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Pinner   Listen
noun
Pinner  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins.
2.
(Costume)
(a)
A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
(b)
An apron with a bib; a pinafore.
(c)
A cloth band for a gown. (Obs.) "With kerchief starched, and pinners clean."
3.
A pin maker.





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"Pinner" Quotes from Famous Books



... mind if I do have it now. It will be a fine moonlight night and I am going with Pinner as far as Beauchamp's to smoke a pipe. Order it ...
— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood
... have visited us at this unfortunate moment, when, I fear, you may be involved in whatever risk we have to bear. Mother! hadn't you better go into the back rooms? I'm not sure whether they may not have made their way from Pinner's Lane into the stable-yard; but if not, you will be safer there than here. Go Jane!' continued he, addressing the upper-servant. And she went, followed by ...
— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... "Thank you, Miss Pinner," said Mr. Farolles gratefully. He folded his coat-tails and began to lower himself into father's arm-chair, but just as he touched it he almost sprang up and slid ...
— The Garden Party • Katherine Mansfield


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