pinner

What it means

1. A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
2. A cloth band for a gown.

   Inſtead of Home-ſpun quoifs were ſeen / Good Pinners, edg'd with Colberteen: [...]

   1708, [Jonathan Swift], “The Metamorphosis of Baucis and Philemon, Burlesqu’d; from the 8th Book of Ovid”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. […], London: […] H. Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 7

   1 more example

   If by the dairy's hatch I chance to hie, / I ſhall her goodly countenance eſpie, / For there her goodly countenance I've ſeen, / Set off with kerchief ſtarch'd and pinners clean.

   1714, J[ohn] Gay, “Friday; or, The Dirge”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: […] R. Burleigh […], →OCLC, page 44, lines 55–58

In a sentence

This wrestler or pahlwan was a devotee of the old type of wrestling, in which the opponent is thrown down and pinned, unable to get out from under the pinner.

2009, Harold Bergsma, The Opium Eaters, page 181

Where it comes from

1. Middle Englishpynner
2. Englishpinner

From Middle English pynner, pynnere, pinnere, equivalent to pin + -er.