Crossword clues for pinner
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pinner \Pin"ner\, n.
One who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins.
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(Costume)
A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
An apron with a bib; a pinafore.
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A cloth band for a gown. [Obs.]
With kerchief starched, and pinners clean.
--Gay.
A pin maker.
Pinner \Pin"ner\, n. [See Pin to pound.] One who pins or impounds cattle. See Pin, v. t. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of pin; one who pins. 2 (context obsolete English) One who pins or impounds cattle. 3 A headdress like a cap, with long lappets. 4 A cloth band for a gown.
WordNet
n. a woman's cap with two long flaps pinned on
Wikipedia
Pinner is a wealthy area of the London Borough of Harrow in northwest London, traditionally in the county of Middlesex, 12.2 miles north west of Charing Cross.
Eastcote is sometimes referred to in it's postal address as being part of Pinner, despite being in Hillingdon (Pinner being located within Harrow).
Pinner is a suburb in north-west London, but may also refer to:
- Pinner tube station
- Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (UK Parliament constituency)
Usage examples of "pinner".
Denville did not, after all, visit her prodigal son before breakfast, being strongly urged by Kit not to do so, on the grounds that she would in all probability wake him from a deep sleep, induced partly by exhaustion, and partly by a posset brewed by Nurse Pinner from some recipe known only to herself.
I must leave you, because Nurse Pinner seems not to be very well, and it would be too unkind in me not to visit her, and perhaps take her something to tempt her appetite.
Captain Cyrus Pinner, his feud spilling to include virtually any white man.
Jordan Elliott went to his company commander, Pinner Worrell, with a brilliant plan that combined military strategy with a biblical sensibility for vengeance.
Wednesday night before the Furman game, fifteen cadets from G Company dressed in fatigues gathered to hear last-minute instructions from Pinner Worrell.
The fifteen cadets synchronized their watches as Pinner went through their assignments once more.
Jordan climbed into the car beside me and his company commander, Pinner Worrell, rode shotgun.
As we neared Greenville, Pinner Worrell took the cadets through their paces again, step by step, making sure that each member of his team knew his role perfectly.
I watched Pinner Worrell disappear over one of the hills and was surprised to find Jordan Elliott coming out of the shadows behind me, laughing.
Extra Long made for the lace-making market by the noted pinner Josiah Doldrum, I would say.
A friend dragged me out to a party in Pinner and I was immediately charmed by him.
He had never made her a single present and even her ring was found to be brass and therefore neither valid nor binding: whereas the present Jack had given her long ago yet not so very long ago neither was close to her heart at this very moment: she had put on a new pinner for the occasion, and now undoing it she leant over the table, showing him the diamond pendant he had bought for her in the year two, one of the many charming fruits of a valuable prize, nestling low in her bosom.
Unfortunately, the friend in Pinner who had lent him his house in Elm Tree Grove a little over three weeks ago had not been disposed to do so on this occasion.
They had a pinner beam on him, and he was a captive forced to wait for the arrival of his pursuer.
And as he tried to raise his hand to his eyes, he made the discovery that he was bound, this time by no pinner but by very real cords, which chafed his wrists, drew hard loops about his ankles.