pintle
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English pintil, from Old English pintel (“penis”), from Proto-Germanic *pint- (“protusion”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“peg, tip, protruding point, edge”), equivalent to pin + -le. Cognate with Middle Low German pint (“male member, penis”), West Flemish pint (“tip”), Norwegian dialectal pintol (“penis”). More at pin, pen.
[edit] Noun
pintle (plural pintles)
- (now dialectal) The penis.
- A pin or bolt, usually vertical, which acts as a pivot for a hinge or a rudder.
- 2005: The train had a searchlight mounted on a pintle on a flat car. — James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 31)
- (gunnery) An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves.
[edit] Translations
pivot for a hinge
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