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Definition of Pin down

1. Verb. Define clearly. "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game"

2. Verb. Place in a confining or embarrassing position. "He was trapped in a difficult situation"

3. Verb. Attach with or as if with a pin. "Pin up a picture"

Definition of Pin down

1. Verb. to attach or secure with pins ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) to identify something (e.g. a decision or plan) clearly or specifically ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic) to corner somebody in order to get a firm answer ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pin Down

pin-prick pin-pricks pin-striped pin-tailed pin-tailed duck pin-tailed grouse pin-tailed sandgrouse pin amalgam pin and ligature cutter pin back

pin bone pin cherry pin clover pin curl pin down (current term) pin implant pin money pin oak pin table pin the tail on the donkey

pin up pin wrench pina pina cloth pina colada pinaceous pinaces pinacocyte

Literary usage of Pin down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sessional Papers (1902)
"There is a notice board, lettered " Goods train stop to pin down brakes," just at the summit at Copy Pit. The following are the Rules in the Company's ..."

2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"In using a stick they raise the link with it, and after they get the link entered they put the pin down with the hand. I mean to say that the usual way of ..."

3. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases in the by Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson (1883)
"In using a stick they raise the link with it, and, after they get the link entered, they put the pin down with the hand. I mean to say that the usual way of ..."

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