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† ˈinchpin Obs.
Also 6–7 -pinne, -pyn.
[app. f. inch n. + pin n.; but perh. (in sense 1) a popular corruption of some other word.]
1. A name among huntsmen for the sweetbread of a deer. But by some explained as ‘the lower gut’, or otherwise: see quots.
1576Turberv. Venerie 134 Take the caule, the tong, the eares, the doulcets, the tenderlings..and the sweetegut, which some call the Inchpinne..altogether for the Prince or chiefe. 1583Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 24 Thee stags vpbreaking they slit to the dulcet or inchepyn. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Boyau, Gras boyau, as Boyau culier; In beasts called, the Inche⁓pinne, or Inne-pinne. 1616Bullokar, Inchepinne, the lower gut of a Deere. 1637B. Jonson Sad Sheph. i. vi, Mar. I gave them All the sweet morsels, called Tongue, Eares, and Doucets! Rob. What? and the inch-pin? 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 188/1 Inchpin are the Sweet-breds or sweet Gut in the Deer.
2. ? A pin of the length of an inch.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxi. 12 He compareth them to a But wherin an inchpin is woont to be set up. |