wrest pin

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noun

peg (def. 5).

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Origin of wrest pin

First recorded in 1780–90

Words nearby wrest pin

Wrens, wren-tit, wrest, wrestle, wrestling, wrest pin, wretch, wretched, Wrexham, wrick, wrier

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How to use wrest pin in a sentence

It was a massive hit, and the safety-pin dress a brilliant cartoonish cherry on top of it.
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The online community of tattooed pin-up models turned 13 this year.
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In other news, black and white pin-up shots are now officially less valuable than life-size Tiger Beat tear outs.
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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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To fix on any one stage in such an evolution, detach it, affirm it, is to wrest a true scripture to its destruction.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
Though, as everybody well knew, the doctor had forbidden her to lift so much as a pin!
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
He held the pin delicately between finger and thumb, and controlled her with his roguish eyes.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
The scolex is about the size of a pin-head, and is surrounded by four sucking discs, but has no hooklets (Fig. 96).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
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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British Dictionary definitions for wrest pin

wrest pin

noun

(on a piano, harp, etc) a pin around which one end of a string is wound: it may be turned by means of a tuning key to alter the tension of the string. In a piano the wrest pin is embedded in the wrest plank

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