pinhold
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pinhold (plural pinholds)
- A place where a pin is fixed.
- 1920, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- He tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in his heartpocket.
- 1991, Lace - Issues 61-68:
- Continue adding in one pair at each inner pinhold until reaching the pinhold where the two weaving pairs connect.
- The attachment formed by pinning something in place.
- 1894, Hall's Journal of Health:
- 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.
- 1934, Stella Mary (Hodgson) Tower, Yesterday's bones, page 244:
- 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.
- An attachment mechanism made up of a small hole into which a pin is inserted.
- 1918, Electrical World - Volume 71, page 1167:
- 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.
- 1977, Leonard I. Nass, Encyclopedia of PVC - Volume 3, page 1439:
- 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.
- 1979, Margo P. Cohen, Piero Pio Foà, Special Topics in Endocrinology and Metabolism - Volume 2, page 133:
- In addition, a gamma counter with pinhold collimation is the best imaging device [78,93].
- 1986, John E. Rhoads, Dental Laboratory Procedures: Fixed partial dentures, page 51:
- Examine all areas closely before using excessive pressure in attempt to seat die; clean them with air pressure, pipe cleaners, toothbrush, or pumping action of dowel pin in pinhold under flowing water (Fig. 1-170)
- (wrestling, professional wrestling) A hold in which the opponent is pinned to the mat.
- 1936, The Youth's Companion Combined with American Boy, page 23:
- ...into a take-down hold and possibly a pinhold— that pins his shoulders to the mat
- 1971 January, Sam Barnes, “Standup to Victory”, in Boys' Life, volume 61, number 1:
- 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.
- 1975, Warren J. Boring, Science and Skills of Wrestling, page 66:
- Legs may serve to harass the opponent, as with the cokkbur; to anchor the lower part of the body, as when applying a stretcher, to deter action by the opponent, as used when applying a double wristlock; for control, as in a cross-body ride or guillotine, in lieu of arms, as in the figure-four head scissors; to trip, as in one variation of the double-leg takedown; to overcome the strength of an arm, as in a near-arm grapevine far-side half nelson; or to turn the opponent, as with the inverted cross-body pinhold.