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pin-spot

[pin-spot]

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verb (used with object), pin-spot·ted, pin-spot·ting. Theater.

to illuminate with a pin spot.

Origin of pin-spot

v. use of pin spot

pin spot

noun Theater.

a spotlight that produces a narrow beam of light illuminating a very small part of a stage, used especially to focus attention on a detail.

the beam of light so produced.

Origin of pin spot

First recorded in 1945–50

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for pin-spot

Historical Examples of pin-spot

Yet, as I followed its footsteps, I saw its form darken a pin-spot of daylight at the end of a crevice of the cavern.
Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from The Arabian Nights
Edmund Dulac