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pinner en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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• /ˈpɪnə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English pynner, pynnere, pinnere, equivalent to pin + -er.

Meanings

1. (agent, form-of) Agent noun of pin; one who pins.
   form of pin
   • This wrestler or pahlwan was a devotee of the old type of wrestling, in which the opponent is thrown down and pinned, unable to get out from under the pinner. 2009, Harold Bergsma, The Opium Eaters, page 181:
2. A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
3. A cloth band for a gown.
   • If by the dairy's hatch I chance to hie, / I ſhall her goodly countenance eſpie, / For there her goodly countenance I've ſeen, / Set off with kerchief ſtarch'd and pinners clean. 1714, J[ohn] Gay, “Friday; or, The Dirge”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: […] R. Burleigh […], →OCLC, page 44, lines 55–58:
   • Inſtead of Home-ſpun quoifs were ſeen / Good Pinners, edg'd with Colberteen: [...] 1708, [Jonathan Swift], “The Metamorphosis of Baucis and Philemon, Burlesqu’d; from the 8th Book of Ovid”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. […], London: […] H. Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 7:

Forms

Deriveds

pinner-up

Descendants

piner

pinner en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpɪnə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Variant of pinder, from Middle English pindere, pyndere, pundere, pendere, equivalent to pend (“to pen”) + -er.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) One who pins or impounds cattle; a pinder.

Forms