pinhold

English

Etymology

pin +‎ hold

Noun

pinhold (plural pinholds)

1. A place where a pin is fixed.
   • 1920, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     He tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in his heartpocket.

   • 1991, Lace - Issues 61-68:

     Continue adding in one pair at each inner pinhold until reaching the pinhold where the two weaving pairs connect.

2. The attachment formed by pinning something in place.
   • 1894, Hall's Journal of Health:

     Cut another piece of cardboard to fill the bottom orifice, sew this well in, and cover the whole figure with muslin to prevent the bran coming out, and to give a good pinhold.

   • 1934, Stella Mary (Hodgson) Tower, Yesterday's bones, page 244:

     As da Silvas turned, she stumbled backwards, her hands pressed together, the rose at her breast falling from its insecure pinhold on to the edge of the carpet.

3. An attachment mechanism made up of a small hole into which a pin is inserted.
   • 1918, Electrical World - Volume 71, page 1167:

     They are made with a 1 in. (2.54 cm.) pinhold and are furnished in two sizes for feeders of 500,000 circ. mils and 1,000,000 circ_ mils respectively.

   • 1977, Leonard I. Nass, Encyclopedia of PVC - Volume 3, page 1439:

     Using two knives in tandem affords a good opportunity to develop a pinhold-free coating when only one coating pass is involved, that is, for thin-gauge coatings. In this way, a pinhold would be only half a coating thick and the likelihood of two pin holes lining up is small.

   • 1979, Margo P. Cohen, Piero Pio Foà, Special Topics in Endocrinology and Metabolism - Volume 2, page 133:

     In addition, a gamma counter with pinhold collimation is the best imaging device [78,93].

   • 1986, John E. Rhoads, Dental Laboratory Procedures: Fixed partial dentures, page 51:

     Examine all areas closely before using excessive pressure in attempt to seat die; clean them with air pressure, pipe cleaners, toothbrush, or pumping action of dowel pin in pinhold under flowing water (Fig. 1-170)

4. (wrestling, professional wrestling) A hold in which the opponent is pinned to the mat.
   • 1936, The Youth's Companion Combined with American Boy, page 23:

     ...into a take-down hold and possibly a pinhold— that pins his shoulders to the mat

   • 1971 January, Sam Barnes, “Standup to Victory”, in Boys' Life, volume 61, number 1:

     Then he was to lock his arms around his opponent's two arms and, using them as a lever, fall backward to the mat, then roll over. If it all worked, Jess would come up on top with a double armlock and body-press pinhold.

   • 1975, Warren J. Boring, Science and Skills of Wrestling, page 66:

     Legs may serve to harass the opponent, as with the cokkbur; to anchor the lower part of the body, as when applying a stretcher, to deter action by the opponent, as used when applying a double wristlock; for control, as in a cross-body ride or guillotine, in lieu of arms, as in the figure-four head scissors; to trip, as in one variation of the double-leg takedown; to overcome the strength of an arm, as in a near-arm grapevine far-side half nelson; or to turn the opponent, as with the inverted cross-body pinhold.

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