英语词汇“temper、pin”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

temper-pin

释义

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.a1796Burns There was a Lass i, Ay she shook the temper-pin.1864W. 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.
1786Burns Ep. Maj. Logan iv, Heaven send your heart⁓strings aye in tune, And screw your temper-pins aboon.1788Shirrefs Poems (1790) 339 Gin the temper-pin ye'll screw, And gi'es a sang.

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