Now a dark Pinfeather is a blot upon the fair surface of a fine chicken or duck, and the thrifty housewife in selecting her dinner will always leave the pins behind.
"Natural and Artificial Duck Culture"
James Rankin
They floats over in one of these yere mountain waggons, what some folks calls a 'buckboard'; the Pinfeather person's drivin'.
"Wolfville Nights"
Alfred Lewis
"'Don't you-all reckon,' says Enright to the Pinfeather party, 'that pendin' hostilities, Abby had better go over to Missis Rucker's?
"Wolfville Nights"
Alfred Lewis