taper pin

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noun

a short round metal rod having a small amount of taper so that when driven into a hole it tightens on the taper so that it can act as a stop or wedge

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Words nearby taper pin

tape-record, tape recorder, tape recording, tapered roller bearing, taper off, taper pin, taper relief, taperstick, tape slap, tape streamer, tapestried

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She had low-grade blood poisoning in her ear from the pin she used to pierce it.
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Lorna planted several pin flags, then we continued cruising.
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Though, as everybody well knew, the doctor had forbidden her to lift so much as a pin!
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He held the pin delicately between finger and thumb, and controlled her with his roguish eyes.
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A grain—requiring to be picked out with a pin and microscope—of truth, with a bushel of bunkum or cant.
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Welcome jerked himself away from the book, whirled around on his wooden pin and pointed his knife at the book-shelves.
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