Legs. Queer pins; ill shapen legs.
♦ Belaying pins. Short cylindrical pieces of wood or iron fixed into the fife-rail and other parts o...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Small wooden or iron cylinders, fixed in racks in different parts of the ship, for belaying running ...
Similar to belaying-pins, but larger. Used to prevent the cable from slipping off the cross-piece of...
A name applied to the fife-rail pins, also called Tack-pins. ...
The belaying pins of the fife-rail; called also Jack-pins. ...
(Isaiah 3:22) The original word means some kind of female ornament, probably a reticule or richly or...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Pins inserted through their ends to prevent their unshipping. ...
To have a gonorrhea. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose