"pin-cushion" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "pin-cushions",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "pincushion"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1671, [Richard Head], “He is Bound Prentice to a Taylor, the Knavery of that Trade, His Master of a Stitch, He is Turn’d over to a Baker, who Misusing Him He Runeth Away”, in The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants. […] The Second Part. […], London: Printed for Francis Kirkman, […], →OCLC; republished [London]: [s.n.], [1874?], →OCLC, page 113",
          "text": "Then for womens cloaths, the cabadge of cloath of ſilver, brancht Sattin, and the like, went for pin-cuſhions, pin-pillows, womens purſes; and if black, Church-wardens capes.",
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        "Alternative form of pincushion"
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  "word": "pin-cushion"
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    {
      "form": "pin-cushions",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pin-cushioning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pin-cushioned",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pin-cushioned",
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        "past"
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        {
          "ref": "2011 June, Mary Tschoi, Erik A. Hoy, Mark S. Granick, “Skin Flaps”, in Deborah S. Hickman Mathis (guest editor), Nancy Girard, editors, Perioperative Nursing Clinics: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, volume 6, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: W. B. Saunders Company, Elsevier, →ISSN, page 180",
          "text": "A circular island flap may pin-cushion. This complication can be avoided with proper planning.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of pincushion"
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  "word": "pin-cushion"
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      "form": "pin-cushions",
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        {
          "ref": "1671, [Richard Head], “He is Bound Prentice to a Taylor, the Knavery of that Trade, His Master of a Stitch, He is Turn’d over to a Baker, who Misusing Him He Runeth Away”, in The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants. […] The Second Part. […], London: Printed for Francis Kirkman, […], →OCLC; republished [London]: [s.n.], [1874?], →OCLC, page 113",
          "text": "Then for womens cloaths, the cabadge of cloath of ſilver, brancht Sattin, and the like, went for pin-cuſhions, pin-pillows, womens purſes; and if black, Church-wardens capes.",
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    {
      "form": "pin-cushions",
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    },
    {
      "form": "pin-cushioning",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pin-cushioned",
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    {
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          "ref": "2011 June, Mary Tschoi, Erik A. Hoy, Mark S. Granick, “Skin Flaps”, in Deborah S. Hickman Mathis (guest editor), Nancy Girard, editors, Perioperative Nursing Clinics: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, volume 6, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: W. B. Saunders Company, Elsevier, →ISSN, page 180",
          "text": "A circular island flap may pin-cushion. This complication can be avoided with proper planning.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of pincushion"
      ],
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  "word": "pin-cushion"
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