Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . mini^s, etc. Pink-salt. (Dyeing.) Ammonia combined withper<-hloride of tin, used in calico-printing. Pink-stern. {Nautical.) Said of a vessel witha viry narrow stern. Pin-lock. One of which the bolt is a round pro-truding pin, as in some forms of locks. Pinnace. a. A man-of-wars boat, next in sizeto the launch ; it is carvel-built, usually 28 to 32feet long,
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . mini^s, etc. Pink-salt. (Dyeing.) Ammonia combined withper<-hloride of tin, used in calico-printing. Pink-stern. {Nautical.) Said of a vessel witha viry narrow stern. Pin-lock. One of which the bolt is a round pro-truding pin, as in some forms of locks. Pinnace. a. A man-of-wars boat, next in sizeto the launch ; it is carvel-built, usually 28 to 32feet long, has a beam .29 to .25 of its length, and isrowed by 6 or 8 oars. b. A small schooner-rigged vessel provided withoars or sweeps ; vessels of this kind of 60 to SO tonsbuiden were formerly employed by the French forcoast defense, and carried one long 24-pounder and100 men. Pinna-cle. (Architecture.) An ornament placedon the top of a buttress as a termination to an angleor gable of a house, church, or tower; also a sum-mit or lofty apex. Pinning-in. (.Uasonri/.) The filling in of thejoints of stune walling with s]ialls of .stone. Pin-paper-ing Ma-chine. In Fowlers ma-chine the pins, fed from an inclined table, are sepa- Fig. I rated and arranged into a row by reciprocation of I the stop-bar r and toothed cut-off s ; falling into , grooves c, they are conducted to the spring door k, which is swung open by tlie vibratory movement of the rake i to the crimper, and forced through the paper by a downward motion of the rake. Pin-rack. (Nautica!.) A frame placed on thedeck of a vessel, and containing sheaves aroundwhich ropes may be worked, and belaying-piusaround wliich they may be secured. Pin-tail. The iron pin in the a-fletiee of a lim-ber, to which the trail-eye of the gun-carriage isattached for travel. Pintle. Pintle. A pivot-pin, such as that of a hinge. a. Tlie hook portion of a rudder liinge which isdriven into the stern-post and receives tlie bnicc ofthe rudder. \, pint
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