nosepin

plural nosepins

1. Any of various decorative ornaments that are worn at the end of the nose.

   In all my life, I have never worn a gold earring or nosepin.

   1992, Kalima Rose, Where Women Are Leaders: The SEWA Movement in India, →ISBN, page 58

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   The nosepin was worn by both sexes, the septum of the nose being pierced shortly after birth, at least as far as the girls were concerned; but probably the same applied to the boys.

   1953, Nationalmuseets skrifter: Etnografisk række - Issue 6, page 69

   And I can see you, my elfin beloved, the stars are like your nosepin.

   1996, Ravi Shankar -, The Scream of the Dragonflies: And Other Stories, page 218

   While they were trying to get their bearings, a party of naked savages with nosepins and sharppointed spears emerged from the belt of mangroves and gazed at them hungrily.

   2013, Bengt Danielsson, From Raft to Raft: An Incredible Voyage from Tahiti to Chile and Back, →ISBN

2. A removable pin that attaches to the nose or tip of a device.

   We got a bearing indicated on the northern nosepin of the aircraft.

   1981, Gayle Rivers, James Hudson, The Teheran contract, page 203

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   The satellite, which is the payload, is fastened to the nosepin of the third-stage rocket motor.

   1959, Welding Journal - Volume 38, Part 2, page 1094

   Plaintiffs contended that on the night of the subject accident the decedent unhooked the yardhorse from a trailer and had parked it 10 feet in front of the trailer to drop a nosepin on the trailer; that after the decedent left the yardgoat- and while he was attempting to lower the nosepin, the yardgoat, which apparently had been in neutral, silently engaged into reverse, moved back and crushed the decedent under the trailer.

   1975, Jury Verdicts Weekly - Volume 19, page 4

   Plaintiffs contended that on the night of the subject accident the decedent unhooked the yardhorse from a trailer and had parked it 10 feet in front of the trailer to drop a nosepin on the trailer; that after the decedent left the yardgoat- and while he was attempting to lower the nosepin, the yardgoat, which apparently had been in neutral, silently engaged into reverse, moved back and crushed the decedent under the trailer.

   1975, Jury Verdicts Weekly - Volume 19, page 4