The lower plate is equipped with pins and the upper one with corresponding holes for holding the sample securely.

He was allegedly blindfolded, while his body was pricked all over with pins and a lathi was squeezed on his lower body from hips to feet.

Her Highness was presented with a gold pin by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in recognition of her initiatives and generous donations to refugees, in particular, her initiative to establish a refugee fund for women.

A pin slipped...

Pass me a pin.

That was a pin dropping.

Do you have a pin?

There's a pin in this, Kirstie!

They hear a pin drop?

Said he hurt himself with a pin.

I rendered the latter with a pin.

I forgot to put a pin there!

There must be a pin on the sofa.

“Watch where you’re sticking that pin, will you!”

But I had a little diamond pin, and this I sold to a travelling pedlar;

Then they all stuck a pin in their fingers to get blood to sign with, and I made my mark on the paper.

A teenage boy with a pale, pointed face and white-blond hair appeared from behind the rack, wearing a handsome set of dark green robes that glittered with pins around the hem and the edges of the sleeves.

His costume was the same as it had been in the morning, except for a new silk handkerchief round his neck, bright green and red, fastened with a huge diamond pin, and an enormous diamond ring on his dirty forefinger.

The different operations into which the making of a pin, or of a metal button, is subdivided, are all of them much more simple, and the dexterity of the person, of whose life it has been the sole business to perform them, is usually much greater.

a workman not educated to this business (which the division of labour has rendered a distinct trade), nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it (to the invention of which the same division of labour has probably given occasion), could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty.

I might remind you that your pincushion, Thomas, still curls up in fright if anyone approaches it with a pin!” Hermione, who had turned rather pink again, seemed to be trying not to look too pleased with herself. Harry and Ron were deeply amused when Professor Trelawney told them that they had received top marks for their homework in their next Divination class. She read out large portions of their predictions, commending them for their unflinching acceptance of the horrors in store for them—but they were less amused when she asked them to do the same thing for the month after next; both of them were running out of ideas for catastrophes.

We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some monstrous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them;