pinhold

Noun

pinhold (plural pinholds)

1. A place where a pin is fixed.
   • He tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in his heartpocket.1920, James Joyce, Ulysses
   • Continue adding in one pair at each inner pinhold until reaching the pinhold where the two weaving pairs connect.1991, Lace - Issues 61-68
2. The attachment formed by pinning something in place.
   • Cut another piece of cardboard to fill the bottom orifice, sew this well in, and cover the whole figure with muslin to prevent the bran coming out, and to give a good pinhold.1894, Hall's Journal of Health
   • As da Silvas turned, she stumbled backwards, her hands pressed together, the rose at her breast falling from its insecure pinhold on to the edge of the carpet.1934, Stella Mary (Hodgson) Tower, Yesterday's bones, page 244
3. An attachment mechanism made up of a small hole into which a pin is inserted.
   • They are made with a 1 in. (2.54 cm.) pinhold and are furnished in two sizes for feeders of 500,000 circ. mils and 1,000,000 circ_ mils respectively.1918, Electrical World - Volume 71, page 1167
   • Using two knives in tandem affords a good opportunity to develop a pinhold-free coating when only one coating pass is involved, that is, for thin-gauge coatings. In this way, a pinhold would be only half a coating thick and the likelihood of two pin holes lining up is small.1977, Leonard I. Nass, Encyclopedia of PVC - Volume 3, page 1439
4. A hold in which the opponent is pinned to the mat.
   • ...into a take-down hold and possibly a pinhold— that pins his shoulders to the mat1936, The Youth's Companion Combined with American Boy, page 23
   • Then he was to lock his arms around his opponent's two arms and, using them as a lever, fall backward to the mat, then roll over. If it all worked, Jess would come up on top with a double armlock and body-press pinhold.1971 January, Sam Barnes, “Standup to Victory”, in Boys' Life, volume 61, number 1