This change having been made, and the effect studied from every angle of the room, Evelina languidly put her pinking-machine on the table, and sat down to the monotonous work of pinking a heap of black silk flounces.
One end of our chopping block, usually of sycamore or oak, is kept for this function, and a few minutes work with pinking iron and hammer will border the lining with neat scallops.
Any one doing much robe work would find a pinkingmachine (price about $5.
The act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron.
Nor that pinking and winking with thy odious eyes, as my charmer once called them.
Mrs. Bevis presently returned with an answer (winking and pinking at me) that the lady would follow her down.
These seem highly entertained with pinking poor Anthony, and whispering, I warrant ye, filthy tales in his ear.
Mrs. Pinking gave him good night; busied herself with the tea-things.
If Mrs. Pinking would be so kind as to allow them the same terms.
Her George clanged the bell with a furious stroke that brought Mrs. Pinking in panic up the stairs.
So it was settled--and together in the sitting-room where Mrs. Pinking made them a little lunch again they debated the immediate future.
Not, however, unwillingly, because it enabled her to give her mind to pinking or gauffering, or whatever other craft was then engaging her attention.
We do not ourself know what pinking is, or gauffering; we have only heard them referred to.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
