pin-cushion

See also: pincushion and pin cushion

English

Noun

pin-cushion (plural pin-cushions)

Alternative form of pincushion
- 1671, [Richard Head], “He is Bound Prentice to a Taylor, the Knavery of that Trade, His Master of a Stitch, He is Turn’d over to a Baker, who Misusing Him He Runeth Away”, in The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants. […] The Second Part. […], London: Printed for Francis Kirkman, […], OCLC 612728320; republished [London: s.n., 1874?], OCLC 946732922, page 113:
  Then for womens cloaths, the cabadge of cloath of ſilver, brancht Sattin, and the like, went for pin-cuſhions, pin-pillows, womens purſes; and if black, Church-wardens capes.
- 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, OCLC 17487293, pages 191–192:
  He was accompanied by the honest Bonnet-maker, who, being, as the reader is aware, a little round man, had planted himself like a pin-cushion, (for he was wrapped in a scarlet cloak, over which he had slung a hawking-pouch,) on the top of a great saddle, which he might be said rather to be perched upon than to bestride.
- 1905, Edith Wharton, chapter XIV, in The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 909409573, book II, page 528:
  The shabby chest of drawers was spread with a lace cover, and set out with a few gold-topped boxes and bottles, a rose-coloured pin-cushion, a glass tray strewn with tortoise-shell hair[-]pins—he shrank from the poignant intimacy of these trifles, and from the blank surface of the toilet-mirror above them.

Verb

pin-cushion (third-person singular simple present pin-cushions, present participle pin-cushioning, simple past and past participle pin-cushioned)

Alternative form of pincushion
- 2011 June, Mary Tschoi; Erik A. Hoy; Mark S. Granick, “Skin Flaps”, in Deborah S. Hickman Mathis, guest editor; Nancy Girard, editor, Perioperative Nursing Clinics: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, volume 6, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: W. B. Saunders Company, Elsevier, →ISBN, ISSN 1556-7931, page 180:
  A circular island flap may pin-cushion. This complication can be avoided with proper planning.

Anagrams

nuncioship

单词	pin-cushion
释义	pin-cushion See also: pincushion and pin cushion English Noun pin-cushion (plural pin-cushions) Alternative form of pincushion 1671, [Richard Head], “He is Bound Prentice to a Taylor, the Knavery of that Trade, His Master of a Stitch, He is Turn’d over to a Baker, who Misusing Him He Runeth Away”, in The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants. […] The Second Part. […], London: Printed for Francis Kirkman, […], OCLC 612728320; republished [London: s.n., 1874?], OCLC 946732922, page 113: Then for womens cloaths, the cabadge of cloath of ſilver, brancht Sattin, and the like, went for pin-cuſhions, pin-pillows, womens purſes; and if black, Church-wardens capes. 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, OCLC 17487293, pages 191–192: He was accompanied by the honest Bonnet-maker, who, being, as the reader is aware, a little round man, had planted himself like a pin-cushion, (for he was wrapped in a scarlet cloak, over which he had slung a hawking-pouch,) on the top of a great saddle, which he might be said rather to be perched upon than to bestride. 1905, Edith Wharton, chapter XIV, in The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 909409573, book II, page 528: The shabby chest of drawers was spread with a lace cover, and set out with a few gold-topped boxes and bottles, a rose-coloured pin-cushion, a glass tray strewn with tortoise-shell hair[-]pins—he shrank from the poignant intimacy of these trifles, and from the blank surface of the toilet-mirror above them. Verb pin-cushion (third-person singular simple present pin-cushions, present participle pin-cushioning, simple past and past participle pin-cushioned) Alternative form of pincushion 2011 June, Mary Tschoi; Erik A. Hoy; Mark S. Granick, “Skin Flaps”, in Deborah S. Hickman Mathis, guest editor; Nancy Girard, editor, Perioperative Nursing Clinics: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, volume 6, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: W. B. Saunders Company, Elsevier, →ISBN, ISSN 1556-7931, page 180: A circular island flap may pin-cushion. This complication can be avoided with proper planning. Anagrams nuncioship
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