wrest pin
noun
Origin of wrest pin
First recorded in 1780–90
Words nearby wrest pin
Example sentences from the Web for wrest pin
The strings passing through holes bored through the little bridges, called agraffes, or studs, turned upward toward the wrest-pin.
British Dictionary definitions for wrest pin
wrest pin
noun
(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