wrest pin

wrest pin ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. peg(def 5).

Origin of wrest pin First recorded in 1780–90 Examples from the Web for wrest pin Historical Examples of wrest pin

The strings passing through holes bored through the little bridges, called agraffes, or studs, turned upward toward the wrest-pin.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883

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British Dictionary definitions for wrest pin wrest pin noun

1. (on a piano, harp, etc) a pin around which one end of a string is wound: it may be turned by means of a tuning key to alter the tension of the string. In a piano the wrest pin is embedded in the wrest plank