Gnomish
tanc
adjective. firm, steady, settled
pieg
noun. pin
tag-
verb. to fix, make firm, construct
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A noun for “pin” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/64), clearly related to ᴱQ. piek “pin” (QL/73).