Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An iron pin used by surveyors for marking the length of a chain; a measuring-pin.
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Examples
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Victorian dandy, splendid in velvet waistcoat, scarf and chain-pin, leaned on a broken column symbolical of his fortunes, and smiled genially on the ruin he had made.
Superseded May Sinclair 1904
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