Definitions for linchpins

linchpins linch·pin

Spelling: [linch-pin]
IPA: /ˈlɪntʃˌpɪn/

Linchpins is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in linchpins (chiilnnps).

Definitions for linchpins

noun

  1. a pin inserted through the end of an axletree to keep the wheel on.
  2. something that holds the various elements of a complicated structure together:

Origin of linchpins

1350-1400; unexplained alteration of Middle English lynspin, equivalent to lyns, Old English lynis axle-pin (cognate with German Lünse) + pin pin

Examples for linchpins

linchpin, linsh′pin, n. a pin used to keep the wheel of a carriage on the axle-tree.

This thin wedge end of the drawbolt is placed under the end of the linchpin.

I will try to be brave, ma'am; but I really did try to put the linchpin back.

Bolshevism was the linchpin that held all the other facets of conspiracy together.

It was one courier in particular that proved the linchpin in Sunday night's operation that killed the al Qaeda leader.

If an axle had broken or a linchpin loosened the race would have been lost.

At the moment, Yisrael Beiteinu is the linchpin of the coming rightist government.

A linchpin had fallen out, and permitted one of the wheels to slide off.

When the linchpin comes out on his side, there'll be a jerk, I tell you!

That I driv yer honour the last three miles without a linchpin!

Word Value for linchpins
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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