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What is the noun for pin?

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A sewing pin, sometimes called a ballhead pin, which is a needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
(wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
(in plural pins; informal) A leg.
(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
(US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
(chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to attack.
(golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
(dated) A mood, a state of being.
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
(medicine) caligo
A thing of small value; a trifle.
A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
(engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
The tenon of a dovetail joint.
(Britain, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
(informal) A pinball machine.
Synonyms:

spike, nail, tack, brad, staple, fastener, needle, skewer, safety pin, rivet, clip, stud, screw, tintack, peg, tin tack, boss, brace, knob, button, hobnail, sprig, sparable, press-stud, panel pin, thumbtack, clout nail, point, pushpin, drawing pin, thumb tack, bolt, dowel, rod, shaft, thole, set screw, spile, spigot, snap … more

Examples:

“The Major applied the last of the bandage cloth and used a pin to keep it in place.”

“The gravestone had a steel pin that held the stone upright on the base.”

“On his collar was a pin with the emblem of the red, white, and black flag to which he had sworn eternal love.”

pinner

Agent noun of pin; one who pins.
(obsolete) One who pins or impounds cattle.
A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
A cloth band for a gown.
Examples:

“It had never been so used before, but it could be arranged, Mrs. pinner told him.”

“Hastening on, she climbed pinner Brow, on the summit of which lay her home.”

“That was in the summer of 1890, when the Rolfes had been living at pinner for eight months.”

pinning

A ceremony in which a pin badge is given.
(physics) The establishment of the definite quantum state of a particle, or of the occupation number of a system of particles

pinsetter

(bowling, originally) The person that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling
(bowling) The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling
Examples:

“We hope our lane and pinsetter installation will show a completely new potential customer just how fun bowling can be.”

“I have never touched a bowling ball in my life, except as a teenage pinsetter.”

“He also worked at Couture's Bowling Alley as a pinsetter and at Labonte's Liquors over the years.”

pinsetting

(bowling) The clearing and resetting of fallen pins in tenpin bowling.

pinspotter

Synonym of pinsetter (person or machine)
Examples:

“Since the introduction of the automated pinspotter in 1946, AMF has been a leader in the bowling industry.”

“It revolutionised ten-pin bowling in the 1940s with the first automated pinspotter machine, which resets the pins after a player has bowled.”

“It revolutionised ten-pin bowling in the 1940s with the development of the first automated pinspotter machine.”

pinnee

The wrestler who is pinned.

pinspotting

Synonym of pinsetting

pinspotters

plural of pinspotter

pinsetters

plural of pinsetter

pinnings

plural of pinning

pinnees

plural of pinnee

pinners

plural of pinner

pins

plural of pin
Synonyms:

spikes, nails, tacks, brads, staples, fasteners, needles, skewers, safety pins, rivets, pegs, bolts, dowels, rods, studs, points, stick, tintacks, clip, spigots, spiles, couplings, nuts, press studs, snap, hobnails, braces, knobs, sparables, bosses, sprigs, buttons, panel pins, drawing pins, picks, spears, brochettes, thumbtacks, trusses, lances, pushpins, spit, cork, bungs, stopples, plugs, hacks, hobs, fids, nog … more

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