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PINMAKER

Specialty Definition: PINMAKER

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Occupations

Operates battery of automatic machines that straighten, cut off, head, and sharpen wire to form straight (common) pins: Places coil of wire on pedestal stand and threads end of wire through machine to heading dies. Adjusts straightening rolls, feeding arm, and stop to diameter and length of wire, using wrenches. Starts machine and measures sampling of first pins for conformance to specifications, such as length, head diameter, and angle of point to shank, using micrometers and fixed gauges. Replaces dull cutters or point-grinding bars, using handtools, such as wrenches, screwdrivers, and pliers. Mounts dies in bench lathe and removes burrs and repolishes head cavity, using stick dipped in polishing paste. Empties pin-filled catch pails into tote trays. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PINMAKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-k-m-n-p-r"

-1 letter: pikeman, ramekin, rampike, ranpike.

-2 letters: airmen, impark, kinema, marine, panier, pinker, preman, rapine, remain.

-3 letters: aimer, amine, anime, arpen, inarm, inker, maker, mikra, minae, miner, minke, namer, pekan, pekin, piker, prank, prima, prime, prink, ramen, ramie, reink, reman, remap, repin, ripen.

-4 letters: airn, akin, amen, amie, amin, amir, aper, earn, emir, kain, kame, kami.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-k-m-n-p-r"
 

+2 letters: printmaker.

 

+3 letters: marlinspike, papermaking, printmakers.

 

+4 letters: marlinespike, marlinspikes, papermakings, phrasemaking, premarketing.

 

+5 letters: marlinespikes, phrasemakings, premarketings, sportsmanlike.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PINMAKER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 49 4E 4D 41 4B 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001001 01001110 01001101 01000001 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#73 &#78 &#77 &#65 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0049 004E 004D 0041 004B 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5043484735453952

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2. Orthography
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