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(verb) immobilize a piece, in chess |
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Related Words: aggress, attack |
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| 2. |
(verb) attach with or as if with a pin |
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Synonyms: pin down, pin up |
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Related Words: attach |
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(verb) attach or fasten with pins |
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Related Words: fasten, fix, secure |
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Antonyms: unpin |
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(verb) pierce with a pin; "pin down the butterfly" |
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Related Words: empale, impale, skewer, spike, spit, transfix |
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(noun) a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things |
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Related Words: barrette, bitt pin, fastener, fastening, gudgeon pin, hairpin, hatpin, holdfast, linchpin, lynchpin, nog, peg, rivet, safety pin, skewer, straight pin, toggle, wrist pin |
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(noun) a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment |
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Related Words: breastpin, broach, brooch, jewellery, jewelry, scarfpin, scatter pin, stickpin, tie tack, tiepin |
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(noun) flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green |
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Synonyms: flag |
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Related Words: golf equipment |
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(noun) two-part cylindrical tumblers held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown |
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Related Words: tumbler |
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(noun) informal terms of the leg; "fever left him weak on his sticks" |
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Synonyms: peg, stick |
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Related Words: leg |
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(verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving; "The child was pinned under the fallen tree" |
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Synonyms: immobilize, trap |
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(noun) a club-shaped wooden object; set up in groups as a target |
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Synonyms: bowling pin |
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Related Words: bowling equipment, duckpin, headpin, kingpin, ninepin, skittle, skittle pin, tenpin |
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(noun) a device attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing |
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Synonyms: oarlock, peg, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
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Related Words: holder |
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(noun) a short shaft that supports something that turns |
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Synonyms: pivot |
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Related Words: axis, axis of rotation, fulcrum, pintle |
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(noun) small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. |
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Synonyms: peg |
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Related Words: mark, marker, marking |
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(noun) when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat |
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Synonyms: fall |
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Related Words: takedown, triumph, victory |
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