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Pinnywinkles   Listen
noun
Pinnywinkles  n. pl.  (Written also pilliewinkles)  An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs. (Scot.)





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"Pinnywinkles" Quotes from Famous Books



... very deil has turned as hard-hearted now as the Lord Keeper and the grit folk, that hae breasts like whinstane. They prick us and they pine us, and they pit us on the pinnywinkles for witches; and, if I say my prayers backwards ten times ower, Satan will never gie ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott


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