2. Verb. (third-person singular of pincushion) ¹
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Definition of Pincushions
1. pincushion [n] - See also: pincushion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pincushions
Literary usage of Pincushions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The girl's own book by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1856)
"books, small pincushions, bodkins, beads, ribbon-yards, and things of a similar
description. This amusement may be concluded by one of the family bringing ..."
2. The Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë, Patrick Branwell Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (1896)
"... of the capacity of a good-sized family clothes-basket, dedicated to the purpose
of conveying from house to house a monster collection of pincushions, ..."
3. The American Girl's Book, Enlarged: Including the American Girl's Book, by by Eliza Leslie (1857)
"THESE pincushions are extremely useful when it is necessary to pin down your work
to keep it steady ... Screw pincushions, it is true, answer the same ..."
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