▪ I. † pinned, a. Obs.
[Variant of penned a.]
Of a feather: a. Grown, formed. b. Undeveloped, rudimentary: see pin-feathered.
| 1399 Langl. Rich. Redeles ii. 148 Tyll her ffre ffedris be ffulliche y-pynned, þat þey heue wynge. 1665 Hooke Microgr. xxxv. 165 An unripe or pinn'd Feather. |
▪ II. pinned, ppl. a.
(pɪnd)
[f. pin n.1 and v.1 + -ed.]
† 1. Enclosed, confined, shut up. Obs.
| c 1412 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 4543 O, þy bagges vnsele; Opne hem;..Thy pyned stuf many a man destroyeth. |
2. Furnished, fitted, or adorned with pins; † spec. covered or studded with pins: cf. pin v.1 7 (obs.).
| 1688 Lond. Gaz. No. 2408/4 A Silver Minute Pendulum Clock, in a pinn'd Case, the Shagreen a very fine grain. 1689 [see pin n.1 1 e]. 1871 Sala in Belgravia XIV. 430 [He] was highly..chained, pinned, and locketed. |
3. Fastened with a pin or pins.
| 1901 J. Black's Illustr. Carp. & Build., Scaffolding 35 We have never seen a pinned ladder come apart. |
4. = pinded (see pind v.).
| 1802 C. Findlater Agric. Surv. Peebles 389 note, When the mothers have little milk, the lambs are rarely pinned. |
5. In pinned straits and pinned whites, names of some kind of cloth. (Meaning unascertained.)
| 1552–3 Act 7 Edw. VI, c. 9 §1 Euery piece of the sayd Clothes called whyte pynned Streightes..being readye dressed to put to sale shall conteine in Lengthe xj Yardes at the least. 1584–5 Act 27 Eliz. c. 18 §2. a 1600 T. Smith Let. to Ld. Treasurer in Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) II. v. xix. 401/2 Also of Pyndewhites and Playnes, made in the West Country. [1642 Rates of Merchandize 133 Dorset and Somerset dozens rudge washt, Cardinals, Pinwhites, Straites..shall goe and be accompted for a short cloth.] |
6. pinned eye (see quot. and cf. pin-eyed a.).
| 1842 Florist's Jrnl. III. 29 The style or stigma [of an auricula] ought not to rise higher than the stamens, forming what is called a pinned eye, which is reckoned a great deformity. |