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Definition of Drawing pin
1. Noun. A tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board.
Definition of Drawing pin
1. Noun. A tack for attaching paper to a drawing board etc ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawing Pin
Literary usage of Drawing pin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First Principles of Mechanical and Engineering Drawing by H. Holt-Butterfill (1897)
"The only kind of drawing-pin a mechanical draughtsman should use should have a
... There is neither sense nor reason in making the head of a drawing- pin ..."
2. Practical Draughtsmen's Work: With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams by Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1906)
"A cheap and fairly effective drawing-pin is now made by punching out of a steel
disc a tongue, ... For a good drawing-pin, it is Fig. 8. Fig. 9. ..."
3. Wireless Telegraphy and Hertzian Waves by Selimo Romeo Bottone (1900)
"Apiece of mahogany about 6" long, 3" wide, |" thick, is selected, and after
havingbeen squared and smoothed up, is fitted with a drawing-pin at the centre ..."
4. The School World (1907)
"Point out that to be accurate you must fix on one part of the tongue and ask them
to imagine that a drawing-pin has been driven into the middle of the ..."
5. Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester (1879)
"The divisions of the map-scale are drawn at ZZ, with a very thin drawing-pin,
very close to the edge of the set square; so that the variation of the ..."
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