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单词 pinsons
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pinsonsn.

Brit. /ˈpɪns(ə)nz/, U.S. /ˈpɪns(ə)nz/
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α. (In plural form) Middle English pensynnys, Middle English pinceouns, Middle English pinsones, Middle English pinsouns, Middle English pynsouns, Middle English pynsownes, Middle English pynssouns, Middle English–1500s pynsones, Middle English–1500s pynsons, 1500s pincons, 1500s pyncheons, 1500s pyncons, 1500s pynsens, 1500s– pinsons, 1600s pinsins; English regional (south-western and south-west midlands) 1800s– pinsens, 1900s– pincens.

β. (In singular form) late Middle English pynson, late Middle English pynsone, 1800s pinson (English regional (Shropshire)).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pinsons.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pinsons, plural (a1334; compare Middle French (Picardy) pinchon pincer, Middle French, French pinçon pinch-mark (on the skin)) < pincier , pincer pinch v. + -on -oon suffix. Compare post-classical Latin pinzones , plural (1312 in a British source). Compare pincer n.
Now English regional (northern) and historical.
(A pair of) pincers, forceps. In early use also: pliers, tongs. Esp. in pair of pinsons.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers
tongsc725
tongsc890
pinsons1356
turkis1390
pincersa1400
twitches?a1425
pinching iron1519
pincette?1533
spinsers1539
pincher1573
twitcher1573
tenailles1597
quitch1600
tenalia1603
forceps1634
vellicle1676
snapdragon1833
α.
1356 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 283 (MED) [One pair of] pynsouns.
1357 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 560 (MED) Stanaxes, Hakkes, pikkes, chesels et pinceouns ponenend. et acuand.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 132 (MED) I aforce me to remeue þilke partie þat prickiþ wiþ pynsouns [v.r. pynsones; L. piccario].
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 15827 (MED) In hyr hand..A gret hamer I beheld, And in the tother hand she held A peyre off pynsouns ek ther-wyth.
1550 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. ii. xxxiii. 538 A pair of pinsons, a little pot, and a guispin.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1010/2 His nose with sharpe pynsons was violently pluckt from his face.
1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 23 His fleshe by gobbets was nipt of with burnynge pyncheons.
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. xcvi. 383 Grope the hoofe with a paire of pinsons.
1673 in N. W. Alcock People at Home (1993) v. 74 A hatchett, a bill, a hammer and pinsins.
1723 Parish Accts. Grandborough in Mod. Lang. Rev. (1951) 46 326 A fork & aspiade & a pare of pinsons 0-1-3.
a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 109 For though the Halter tamed hath the Curs Or Pinsons Cured have their tooth ach urrs.
1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Pinsons Gie me the omber [=hammer] an' pinsons 'ere, an' I'll soon fatch the nail out.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Pinsons,..(2) a dentist's forceps. ‘I was staït enough than he drawed th' pinsons aït.’
1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry xiv. 140 By historical rather than whimsical twists of the tongue, pincers often became pinsons or pinchers.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 227/2 Pinsons, pincers.
β. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 400 Pynsone [?a1475 Winch. Pynson], to drawe owt tethe, dentaria.1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 531 A pair of pinson.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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