Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PIN, v.t. [W. piniaw.]

1. To fasten with a pin or with pins of any kind; as, to pin the clothes; to pin boards or timbers.
2. To fasten; to make fast; or to join and fasten together. Our gates … we have but pinned with rushes. – Shak. She lifted the princess from the earth, and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin her to her heart. – Shak.
3. To inclose; to confine. – Hooker. [See the verbs Pen and Pound.]