corking pin

Noun

 * 1)  A large pin used to attach a woman's headdress to a cork mould.
 * 2) * December 1 1720,, a letter of advice to a young poet
 * There is a certain little instrument, the first of those in use with scholars, and the meanest, considering the materials of it, whether it be a joint of wheaten straw (the old Arcadian pipe) or just three inches of slender wire, or a stripped feather, or a corking pin. Farthermore, this same diminutive tool, for the posture of it, usually reclines its head on the thumb of the right hand, sustains the foremost finger upon its breast, and is itself supported by the second.
 * 1) * 1785,, letter, 15 December:
 * Give me a great corking pin that I may stick your faith upon my sleeve.
 * Give me a great corking pin that I may stick your faith upon my sleeve.