Meanings
pinner1
plural pinners
- agentAgent noun of pin; one who pins.
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 - 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 71 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
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Origin
pinner · noun
- Middle Englishpynner
- Englishpinner
From Middle English pynner, pynnere, pinnere, equivalent to pin + -er.
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- Middle Englishpindere
- Englishpinner
Variant of pinder, from Middle English pindere, pyndere, pundere, pendere, equivalent to pend (“to pen”) + -er.
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pinner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pinner
“pinner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pinner. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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