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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1587-1646
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Pinner, Piner, n.1 Also: pyner. [Pin v. 1, and cf. Pin n.1 1.] A piece, or rafter, of wood used to fasten or stabilise a structure. — 1587 (1650) Dundee B. Laws 143.
Reparation of the tolbuith … For pyners of timmer to be skalfetting, and helping to put up the same 1637–8 Aberd. Shore Wk. Acc. 229.
For roche stanes and pineris led to the schoir 1645–6 J. Hope Diary (1958) 151.
They putt a peece of wood in the midle hole … which they call the pinner and about it they place uther wood of the same lenth
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