Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The small circular indentation on one side and near the shoulder of a printing-type. It is made by the pin which dislodges the type from the mold in which it was cast.

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  • Here and there the tools had left a faint scratch, only deep as the width of Broadway and a bagatelle of five hundred feet in length; but that detracted no more from the unblemished four-square contour of the entire mass than a pin-mark from the symmetry of a door-post.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

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