pintle

[ pin-tl ]

/ ˈpɪn tl /

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noun

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

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

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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Origin of pintle

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

Words nearby pintle

pin-tailed, pintano, Pinter, Pinterest, pin the tail on the donkey, pintle, pinto, pinto bean, Pintsch gas, pint-size, pint-sized

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How to use pintle in a sentence

The rudder also was found to be much injured, the rudder-head being split through the centre, as low down as the upper pintle.
True Blue|W.H.G. Kingston
Pintle, pin′tl, n. a little pin: a long iron bolt: the bolt or pin on which the rudder of a ship turns.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various
It will be noted that the truck center pintle is in fact the fulcrum for this leverage.
Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck|John H. White
The barbette carriage revolves about a central pintle, or axis, and turns the gun around with it.
America's Munitions 1917-1918|Benedict Crowell

Her timbers had started, her sides were coated with green weed; her rudder, wrenched from its pintle, lay hopelessly askew.
The Astonishing History of Troy Town|Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British Dictionary definitions for pintle

pintle

/ (ˈpɪntəl) /

noun

a pin or bolt forming the pivot of a hinge

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

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

Word Origin for pintle

Old English pintel penis

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