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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

pl.

An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs.

[Written also

pilliewinkles

[Scot.]

Sir W. Scott.

pinnywinkles pl ‎(plural only)

Alternative form of pilliwinks
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