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Definition of Pinnocks
1. pinnock [n] - See also: pinnock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnocks
Literary usage of Pinnocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Salopia Antiqua: Or, An Enquiry from Personal Survey Into the 'druidical by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1841)
"pinnocks, s. fine clothes. ... wears any fine pinnocks, and yo needna fear taking
on her." C. Brit. piner, a garment. ..."
2. The Flora of Berkshire: Being a Topographical and Historical Account of the by George Claridge Druce (1897)
"Near the Blind-pinnocks [which are near Cumnor], Merrett. 2. Ook. In Radley Park.
5. Loddon. In the grounds of Wellington College, Penny. ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1834)
"pinnocks beer- shop is up Holt White's-lane. We then went up the lane, within
nine or ten poles of Pinnock's beer- shop, when Johnson turned round. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"(3) A brick or wooden tunnel placed under a road to carry off the water. Susses:
pinnocks. Fine clothes. Salop. ..."
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