The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
A large cushion or pillow.
A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.
The pincushionplant, a flowering plant in the genus Navarretia.
A flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum.
The dustymaiden, a flowering plant in the genus Chaenactis.
A person who is pricked or stabbed multiple times with sharp objects; specifically, someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections.
The coral bead plant, coral moss, or English baby tears (Nertera granadensis), an ornamental plant.
A flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa.
The pincushion cactus, of the genera Escobaria or Mammillaria.
To jab or stick repeatedly with one or more sharp objects, as with pins into a pincushion.
To assume the shape of a pincushion; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit pincushion distortion, where the sides curve inwards.