four-pin

Updated: May 20, 2025

Making our way into one of the larger huts, we stroll into the open door, and ask a more important-looking man if he has any water-melon? We get a splendid one for "four-pin," and have a delicious "gouter." Our host a little, dry, withered-up fellow, dressed in a soiled blue cotton jacket, and wide trowsers which flap about his ankles collects the rind for his fowls.

Samuel Smiles - A Boy's Voyage Round the World