temper-pin Sc.
[f. temper n. + pin n.]
1. The wooden screw used in regulating the tightness of the band of a spinning-wheel; fig. temper, disposition.
| 17.. in Ritson Sc. Songs (1794) I. 175 My spinning-wheel is auld and stiff,..To keep the temper pin in tiff, Employs aft my hand, sir. a 1796 Burns There was a Lass i, Ay she shook the temper-pin. 1864 W. D. Latto Tam. Bodkin iii, A hole in her chackit apron claught haud o' the temper pin, whan doon gaed Bessie an' the wheel. Ibid. x, Mr. G.'s temper pin was nae wise improved by the..catastrophe. |
† 2. A tuning-screw or peg of a violin, etc. Obs.
| 1786 Burns Ep. Maj. Logan iv, Heaven send your heart⁓strings aye in tune, And screw your temper-pins aboon. 1788 Shirrefs Poems (1790) 339 Gin the temper-pin ye'll screw, And gi'es a sang. |