Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One employed in the making of pins.
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Examples
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But he was, in truth, like that clumsy pin-maker who made the whole pin, and who was despised by Adam Smith on that account and respected by Macaulay, much more the artist nevertheless.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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William Frost, a cripple, was the son of a pin-maker in Christ Church parish, Southwark, and as to his education, my account says it was in hereditary ignorance.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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Your fine duel with Monsieur de Coutenan about the pretty little pin-maker, -- he even spoke of it to the King.
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My aunt, to whom this young creature confessed that the menaces of the pin-maker had terrified her so much that she would have done whatsoever I wished, was so affected with my behaviour that she went to tell it to the Bishop of Lisieux, who told it to the King.
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The old woman was sitting up in her wretched bed, winding worsted; four meager, ill-clothed, pale children were all busy, some of them sticking pins in paper for the pin-maker, and others sorting rags for the paper-maker.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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Actually that means that it takes nine persons to make one whole pin-maker, which leaves the question still to be solved as to how many whole pin-makers it takes to make a man.
Prose Fancies Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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What is the relation of one pin-maker to the whole social economy?
Prose Fancies Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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On the first Saturday in May the Seigneur de l'Ours was carried to the market place in a tumbrel with Durand de Brie, a dyer, master of the sixty cross-bowmen of Paris, and Jean Perquin, pin-maker and brasier.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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But he was, in truth, like that clumsy pin-maker who made the whole pin, and who was despised by Adam Smith on that account and respected by Macaulay, much more the artist nevertheless.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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The question in a public sense is not, "From what family or class shall the pin-maker or the statesman be taken?"
Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions George S. Boutwell 1861
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