0 a pin with a flat top for attaching papers to a bulletin board -- tegnestift [ masculine ]
1 a drawing-pin -- tegnestift
The following 1979 year's offering draws from just as big a notice board, but the musical thumbtacks are rarely strong enough to hold the ideas in place.
En route to the city, the bus is forced to stop when all eight tires are punctured by a single thumbtack in the road.
Although the force applied to the surface is the same, the thumbtack applies more pressure because the point concentrates that force into a smaller area.
The fraternity piano had thumbtacks on every hammer and produced a unique sound.
Using thumbtacks or small nails as mounting posts was also common.
Thumb tack and push pin are both sometimes compounded (thumbtack or pushpin) or hyphenated (thumb-tack or push-pin).
A thumbtack may also be made to spin on the same principles.
The tape is affixed to the trunk at this point via several thumbtacks at this point and allowed to hang freely down the trunk.
