0 a long metal pin, often with a decorated end, that is pushed through a woman's hat and hair to keep the hat on the head
One cannot arouse much enthusiasm or excitement by reducing or adjusting the tax on babies' bonnets, hatpins or the like.
During the 1880s, bonnets gave way to hats, and the popularity of hatpins soared.
The hatpin was invented to hold wimples and veils in place, and was handmade.
The mouse, just as before, tricks the cat by attaching a hatpin to the tip end of the cue, and then yanks the cue briefly.
It was also worn by women, often with hatpins to keep it in place.
They said they had then cut out the cardboard figures and supported them with hatpins, disposing of their props in the beck once the photograph had been taken.
She also had to use a long, straight hatpin to clean a fuel pipe, which had become blocked, and to insulate a wire with a garter.
