pinning-end

Updated: May 8, 2025

The wind have blowed down the chimley that don't smoke, and the pinning-end with it; and the old ancient house, that have been in your family so long as the memory of man, is naked to the world! It is a mercy that your grammer were not killed, sitting by the hearth, poor old soul, and soon to walk wi' God, for 'a 's getting wambling on her pins, Mr. Swithin, as aged folks do.

Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower