pintle

American  

[pin-tl] / ˈpɪn tl /

noun

1. a pin or bolt, especially one on which something turns, as the gudgeon of a hinge.

2. a pin, bolt, or hook by which a gun or the like is attached to the rear of a towing vehicle.

3. a cast iron or steel base for a wooden post, often cast in a single piece with a cap for a lower post.

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pintle British  

/ ˈpɪntəl /

noun

1. a pin or bolt forming the pivot of a hinge

2. the link bolt, hook, or pin on a vehicle's towing bracket

3. the needle or plunger of the injection valve of an oil engine

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Etymology

Origin of pintle

before 1100; Middle English pintel penis, Old English; cognate with Old Danish pintel

Example Sentences

The pintle on which the rudder fits and swings is a strip of brass, the width of the after fin, a wire pin being hard-soldered in to fit up into the rudder.

From Boys' Book of Model Boats by Yates, Raymond F. (Raymond Francis)

Pintle.—An upright pivot pin, or the pin of a hinge; A represents the pintle of a rudder.

From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by Zerbe, James Slough

With a gun on a travelling-carriage, to release it from the limber, by lifting the trail off the pintle and placing it on the ground, thus bringing it to the position for action.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The rudder also was found to be much injured, the rudder-head being split through the centre, as low down as the upper pintle.

From True Blue by Kingston, William Henry Giles

There we met a strong southerly gale, and in the middle of it a pintle of our rudder gave way and the loose rudder damaged our stern-post.

From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir