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corking pins

corking pins is the plural of corking pin.

Meaning of corking pin

Noun

corking pin (plural corking pins)

  1. (obsolete) A large pin used to attach a woman's headdress to a cork mould.
    • December 1 1720, Jonathan Swift, a letter of advice to a young poet
      There is a certain little instrument, the first of those in use with scholars, and the meanest, considering the materials of it, whether it be a joint of wheaten straw (the old Arcadian pipe) or just three inches of slender wire...

Questions about corking pins

What is corking pins the plural of?
Corking pins is the plural of corking pin.

Words near corking pins in the dictionary

  1. corking
  2. corking it
  3. corking off
  4. corking out
  5. corking pin
  6. corking pins
  7. corking up
  8. corkingest
  9. corkingly
  10. Corkins
  11. corkir

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