Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pin or a bolt on which another part pivots.
- noun Nautical The pin on which a rudder turns.
- noun The pin on which a gun carriage revolves.
- noun A hook or a bolt on the rear of a towing vehicle for attaching a gun or trailer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pin upon which anything revolves, or which holds two things together while one or both are free to move in a certain way.
- noun The penis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little pin.
- noun (Mech.) An upright pivot pin.
- noun The pivot pin of a hinge.
- noun A hook or pin on which a rudder hangs and turns.
- noun A pivot about which the chassis swings, in some kinds of gun carriages.
- noun A kingbolt of a wagon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun now dialectal The
penis . - noun A
pin orbolt , usually vertical, which acts as apivot for ahinge or arudder . - noun gunnery An iron
pin used to controlrecoil of acannon or around which a gun carriage revolves.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pin or bolt forming the pivot of a hinge
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The parts of the hinges are called the pintle (the pin) and gudgeon (the opening into which the pin fits).
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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The parts of the hinges are called the pintle (the pin) and gudgeon (the opening into which the pin fits).
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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Many such muskets come with a inherent pintle mount so that they can be braced while standing; it requires a move action to set up the pintle.
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I found fat pintle shoots poking through dead leaves, fiddleheads in bracken beds, and lily bulbs.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I ate ramps and spinach and pintle shoots and fiddleheads, everything green and full of life.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Or isnt a Westland Wessex with pintle mounted GPMGs aeither a "helicopter" or a "gunship" in your book?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Or isnt a Westland Wessex with pintle mounted GPMGs aeither a "helicopter" or a "gunship" in your book?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I ate ramps and spinach and pintle shoots and fiddleheads, everything green and full of life.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I ate ramps and spinach and pintle shoots and fiddleheads, everything green and full of life.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I found fat pintle shoots poking through dead leaves, fiddleheads in bracken beds, and lily bulbs.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
reesetee commented on the word pintle
A pin or a bolt on which another part pivots, such as the pin on which a rudder turns, the pin on which a gun carriage revolves, or the bolt on a towing vehicle for attaching a trailer.
Go on, check out the etymology. You know you want to.
March 2, 2007
sionnach commented on the word pintle
see, and I always thought this was a ship - you know - the ninle, the pintle and the santle maria
March 2, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pintle
Yes, yes, sionnach. I had that problem too. ;-)
March 2, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word pintle
"'...gaff enough to spread a tolerable mizen. Enough, at all events, to sail with the wind ahead at a moderate pace without straining the rudder right off its pintles; and if it ain't elegant, why, be damned to elegance.'
'What are pintles?'
'Those right-angled pieces in the front of the rudder that hook into rings or braces as we say at the back of the stern-post so that the rudder can swing like a door on its hinges.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 251
March 16, 2008
tankhughes commented on the word pintle
Interesting that the Word of the Day version of this page doesn't include the etymology or all the meanings.
May 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word pintle
Surely time for a Wordle ripoff which-pint-is-that game.
May 15, 2022