Definition of "pinner"

This wrestler or pahlwan was a devotee of the old type of wrestling, in which the opponent is thrown down and pinned, unable to get out from under the pinner.

2009, Harold Bergsma, The Opium Eaters, page 181

Inſtead of Home-ſpun quoifs were ſeen / Good Pinners, edg'd with Colberteen: [...]

1708, published 1709, page 7

If by the dairy's hatch I chance to hie, / I ſhall her goodly countenance eſpie, / For there her goodly countenance I've ſeen, / Set off with kerchief ſtarch'd and pinners clean.

1714, J[ohn] Gay, “Friday; or, The Dirge”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: […] R. Burleigh […], page 44, lines 55–58