Endpin

Origin

end + pin

Full definition of endpin

Noun

1. (music, lutherie) The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor.
• 2007, July 8, Jesse Green, Let Her Entertain You. Please!, Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.