pinners

That evening Sally was making 'pinners' for the milkers, who were now increased by two, for her mother and herself no longer joined in milking the cows themselves.

Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884

Organizations hold rehearsals, and pinners practice their job.

Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010

Organizations hold rehearsals, and pinners practice their job.

Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010

The low ratio of pinners to commenters may be due to some commenters playing the role of multiple characters.

At the Mauve Café. Ann Althouse 2009

That evening Sally was making ‘pinners’ for the milkers, who were now increased by two, for her mother and herself no longer joined in milking the cows themselves.

Wessex Tales 2006

Ailie; but laced pinners, hastily put on to meet the stranger, with some other trifling articles of decoration, marked the difference between Mrs. Wilson, life-rentrix of Milnwood, and the housekeeper of the late proprietor.

Old Mortality 2004

They sent for the best tire-woman they could get to make up their head-dresses and adjust their double pinners, and they had their red brushes and patches from Mademoiselle de la Poche.

The Blue Fairy Book 2003

The backs of those in the distance, behung with bags, major perukes, pinners, &c. are most laughably ludicrous.

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

We had two splendid walnut-trees, and a mulberry-tree of immense size, which was an object of special abhorrence to "nurse," as for more than two months in the summer the children's frocks, pinners, &c., were dyed with the juice of the fruit.

Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it Miss Coulton

"His Grace the Duke of Hamilton!" announces Mrs Abigail, very demure in her pinners at the door; and in walks his Grace, magnificent in manners and dress, and Mr Lepel's fury stopped on a breath, though he could not regain countenance as readily as Elizabeth.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty