WordNet
n. pin consisting of a short straight stiff piece of wire with a pointed end; used to fasten pieces of cloth or paper together
Usage examples of "straight pin".
In one hand he carried a spear fashioned from a battered old yellow Number 2 pencil, some twine, and what must have been a straight pin, and he wore a little blue plastic cocktail sword through another piece of twine on his belt.
But Stoner extracted a small straight pin from the breast pocket of his khaki jacket and pricked the tip of his thumb.
It was held firmly in place by a straight pin with a glossy black enamel head as large as a pea.
He was holding the straight pin with the black enamel head as large as a pea.
Wacky wanted revenge, so he retrieved the mangled dead cat and attached a note with a straight pin to the cat's hide.
His face was a block of granite that some artist had tried to sculpt with a butter knife, a straight pin, and a blunt screwdriver.
But if you do not stop talking like that tome, you will find cyanide in your tea, or a curare-tipped straight pin inside your trouser leg.
On my portable Smith Corona, I'd been known to use a straight pin to clean the clogged typewriter keys.
Too, Janja had no doubt that the long straight pin of Hellfire's replica of an ancient brooch, silver with a lovely multihued head of opal and shell, was a dagger.