Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place at which a pin holds or makes fast.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A place where a pin is fixed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A place where a pin is fixed.

Etymologies

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pin +‎ hold

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Examples

  • He tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in his heart pocket.

    Ulysses 2003

  • He tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in his heart pocket.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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