Definition of Drawing pin

1. Noun. A tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board.

Exact synonyms: Pushpin, Thumbtack
Generic synonyms: Paper Fastener, Tack
Derivative terms: Thumbtack

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

drawing
drawing-room car
drawing board
drawing boards
drawing card
drawing chalk
drawing dead
drawing hand
drawing hands
drawing ink
drawing live
drawing lots
drawing off
drawing out
drawing paper
drawing pin (current term)
drawing pins
drawing power
drawing room
drawing rooms
drawing string
drawing table
drawings
drawish
drawknife
drawknives
drawl
drawlatch
drawlatches
drawled

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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