pinner


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pinner

(ˈpɪnə)
n
1. a person or thing that pins
2. (Clothing & Fashion) a small dainty apron
3. (Clothing & Fashion) a cap with two long flaps pinned on
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.pinner - a woman's cap with two long flaps pinned onpinner - a woman's cap with two long flaps pinned on
cap - a tight-fitting headdress
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One of these was a sturdy middle-aged man--whose long white "pinner" was somewhat finer and cleaner than the wraps of the others, and whose jacket underneath had a presentable marketing aspect--the master-dairyman, of whom she was in quest, his double character as a working milker and butter maker here during six days, and on the seventh as a man in shining broad-cloth in his family pew at church, being so marked as to have inspired a rhyme-
He wore the ordinary white pinner and leather leggings of a dairy-farmer when milking, and his boots were clogged with the mulch of the yard; but this was all his local livery.
Pinner says she's always about your trinket-box and drawers, and everybody's drawers, and she's sure she's put your white ribbing into her box."
"I don't trust them governesses, Pinner," she remarked to the maid.
This sickened her of America, and she came back to live with a maiden aunt at Pinner, in Middlesex.
He learned they were the wife and the younger sister of a surgeon living at Stanmore, who had come in the small hours from a dangerous case at Pinner, and heard at some railway station on his way of the Martian advance.
ANOTHER big score from Neil Pinner wasn't enough for Kidderminster to win their Worcestershire derby against Barnt Green in Premier Division One of the Birmingham Cricket League.
Neil Pinner But Neil Pinner's Kidderminster are also seeking a third straight win as they continue their climb up the division.
Shrewsbury's total of 169-7 always looked insufficient and that proved the case, with the visitors racing to victory courtesy of a blistering, unbeaten 98 from captain Neil Pinner. Arriving at the crease with the chase nicely poised at 30-2, Pinner struck 20 boundaries - including three sixes - in a 53-ball innings.
Wanting to show the level of "disbelief and sadness" at the shocking attack, a GoFundMe page was set up by people in Pinner to help Mr Katharkamar's family pay funeral costs, cover ongoing financial needs and to "show we care".
The man is believed to have been attacked as he opened Marsh Food and Wine in Pinner on yesterday morning.
Detectives believe the victim, 54, was opening the shop in Pinner, North West London, when he was attacked.