pintle

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Sometimes, as in blind-hinges, the pintle is fastened into one knuckle, but turns freely in the other A butt-hinge may be set in one of three positions, Fig.

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  1. noun A pin or a bolt on which another part pivots.
  2. noun Nautical The pin on which a rudder turns.
  3. noun The pin on which a gun carriage revolves.
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  • They get the heavy duty BFGoodrich Mud Terrain T / A's a beefy front and rear bumper with high grade shackles and a military-style pintle hitch and a "J8" badge on the side. —  Jalopnik
  • She took the tractor around to get the mobile lighting unit just to find out the she grabbed the one with out the pintle hook (tail hook thing at back for towing things around). —  Progressive U - The new media voice for students
  • Don't shoot, I'm gonna hop up and get the pintle-mount [light machine gun] goin ' —  CanCult.ca
  • Sometimes, as in blind-hinges, the pintle is fastened into one knuckle, but turns freely in the other A butt-hinge may be set in one of three positions, Fig. —  Handwork in Wood
  • I got under the 'Eagle's' bottom, but somehow the screw struck the iron bar that passes from the rudder pintle, and wouldn't hold on anyhow I could fix it. —  Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
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  1. Middle English pintel, penis, from Old English.

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  1. In sense 1 taken to be a diminutive of pin, but in form and in sense 2 in fact from Middle English pintel, pyntyl, from Anglo-Saxon pintel, diminutive of *pint, = OFries. pint, penth = Middle Low German Low German pint = Danish dial, pint, pintel, penis. Cf. Italian pinco, pincio, the same.
 

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