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thumbtack
/ ˈθʌmˌtæk /
noun
- a short tack with a broad smooth head for fastening papers to a drawing board, etc Also called (esp in Britain)drawing pin
Word History and Origins
Origin of thumbtack1
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Example Sentences
A gram of some fynbos plants’ root tissue – about the mass of a thumbtack – can stretch over 15 football field lengths of territory.
The chart’s dense web of arrows and connections bore an unmistakable resemblance to an obsessive’s cork board covered with red string and thumbtacks.
A thumbtack is inserted in the standard near the top to prevent the box from being lifted entirely from the base.
Lay the stencil pattern in position and thumbtack it down to the cheese cloth and blotting paper.
If knives are used to cut out the design, thumbtack the leather before commencing.
The latter she suspended by a thumbtack beside the mirror of her bureau.
She took the miniature, thumbtack and all, from the wall, 183 and put it in her wrist bag.
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