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Spare item
Answer for the clue "Spare item ", 3 letters:
pin
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Word definitions for pin in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In bridge and similar trick-taking games , the term pin refers to the lead of a higher card from one hand to capture a singleton of lower rank in an opponent's hand.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pin \Pin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pinning .] [See Pin , n.] To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together. ``As if she would pin her to her heart.'' --Shak. To pin one's faith ...
Usage examples of pin.
Possibly the gums or the inside of the cheeks may have been scratched or abraded with a pin.
When an authorized person needs to access the network from offsite, she must first identify herself as an authorized user by tyPINg in her secret PIN and the digits displayed on her token device.
Granny Aching had been wrapped in a woollen blanket, with a tuft of raw wool pinned to it.
Baptiste had Adeem pinned against the floor, straddling him as he wrapped his hands around his neck.
The giant gave a lopsided smile and held Ager by the shoulders, pinning him down.
He was so ashamed of breaking ahimsa that his body fell slack and the other boys managed to pin him to the floor.
It is in my heart that when Akela misses his next kill,--and at each hunt it costs him more to pin the buck,--the Pack will turn against him and against thee.
In his dreams he was watching his father from six-year-old eyes, submerged to test depth on the old sub his father had commanded, and in the mirror was a child staring back at him wearing coveralls with a dolphin pin, and he went into the stateroom and Alameda was there, wearing something filmy and she began kissing him and she climbed into his rack with him.
No longer interested in conversation, he struggled for his life, and felt the Arachnos responding to her commands to pin him down.
This air is enhanced by the presence of five aspidistras, placed in a row on the top of the bunting, which has been stretched across the top, over the opening and the turned-back lid, tightly fixed to the edges with drawing pins, and allowed to fall in artistic festoons down the sides and in a sort of valance-like effect across the front.
Before Auger could react, he had expertly pinned her against the door and was holding one of her eyes open and aiming the end of the pen into it.
Corporal Hart relinquished his seat to the azimuth tracker, who promptly speared the oncoming blip with her electronic pin.
He noted that Barton Badging was a prim-looking gentleman who wore gold-coin cufflinks, a tie pin fashioned from a coin, and had a gold-coin watch fob dangling from a heavy gold chain stretched across his vest.
As they proceeded, he marked roughly on the side of his tin baler, with the point of a pin borrowed from Helen, the form of the coast line.
Ned yelled as he tugged the pin from his last black banger, lifted the hatch, dropped it down and shut the hatch again.