pinking iron

With a pinking iron cut scalloped edge and enough of a narrow strip to gather fully all around just inside the outer edge.

The adjutant faces toward the left flank, shoulders his tinseled pinking iron, and sets his teeth firmly, almost defiantly.

Place two pieces together and pin at the fold, and "pink" through the four thicknesses, around the edges with a "pinking iron."

Just in time, dearie, to fetch us the paste from the library and the pinking iron which Gussie was using last evening.

This projecting edge is pinked with a pinking iron, to make it more ornamental.