tonsure (iou) and pin 1, noun (oh)

tonsure (iou)

tonsure noun & verb. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin tonsura, from tons- pa. ppl stem of tondere shear, clip: see -URE.]
A. noun.
The action or process of clipping the hair or shaving the head; the state of being shorn. LME.
spec. The shaving of the head or part of it as a religious practice or rite, esp. as a preparation to entering the clergy or a religious order. LME.
b. The part of a priest's or monk's head left bare by shaving the hair, in the Western Christian church typically a round patch on the crown. LME.
The clipping of coins, or of shrubs or hedges; the state of being clipped. rare. L15-L17.
b. verb trans. Clip or shave the hair of; usu. spec. give a tonsure to; fig. make bald-headed. L18.
tonsurate noun (Ecclesiastical History) the state or quality of being tonsured, esp. in preparation for orders L19.
tonsured adjective that has received the (ecclesiastical) tonsure; fig. partly bald; (of a shrub) clipped: E18.

pin 1, noun (oh)

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1 ?for joining/fastening?
2 ?jewellery?
3 ?electrical?
4 ?bowling?
5 you could hear a pin drop
6 ?part of bomb?
7 ?Golf?
8 for two pins I'd ...
9 pins
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[Language: Old English; Origin: pinn]
?FOR JOINING/FASTENING?
a) a short thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end, used especially for fastening together pieces of cloth while making clothes
b) a thin piece of metal used to fasten things together, especially broken bones
?JEWELLERY?
AmE a piece of metal, sometimes containing jewels, that you fasten to your clothes to wear as a decoration
British Equivalent: brooch
?ELECTRICAL?
BrE one of the pieces of metal that sticks out of an electric plug
::a three-pin plug
bowling ball, shoes, pin, bowling
?BOWLING?
one of the bottle-shaped objects that you try to knock down in a game of bowling
you could hear a pin drop
spoken used to say that it is very quiet and no one is speaking
?PART OF BOMB?
a short piece of metal which you pull out of a hand grenade to make it explode a short time later
?Golf?
a metal stick with a flag at the top which marks the holes on a Golf course
for two pins I'd ...
BrE old-fashioned used to say that you would like to do something to someone because they have annoyed you
::For two pins, I'd just send them all Home.
pins [plural] BrE informal legs
-see also drawing pin , pin money , pins and needles (1), rolling pin , safety pin

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