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thumbtack

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thumbtack
chiefly US and Canadian a short tack with a broad smooth head for fastening papers to a drawing board, etc.


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Similarly, depictions of shadow boxes or wood panels as surfaces for items hung on nails or pinned with thumbtacks appear often.
If you are not going to be using a dye but will be decorating your egg with paints, markers or glue designs, an attractive way to conceal the holes is by gluing a designer thumbtack (you know, those curved kind) atop each hole.
Office workers use metal furniture, computer cabinets, mechanical pencils and pens, thumbtacks, and other desk accessories that are powder coated.
 
 
 
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