pinnas
- plural of pinna.
Example Sentences
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And Cratinus also speaks of the pinna in his Archilochi— She indeed like pinnas and sea oysters.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
I confess, though the possibility of the pearl increasing in size and loveliness was obvious, that the fact that pinnas are subject to ills, chances, and mishaps, was also recognised.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
The seuenth a pinnas called Frisland, of burden about seuenty tuns.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard
When they design to make many pinnas, or spongy lumps of various weights, these are divided from each other by thin beds or layers of earth, which hinder them from uniting.
The weight of these pinnas may be increased nearly a third, by dipping them while red hot into water.
