Crossword clues for penning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pen \Pen\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Penning.]
To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to
compose; as, to pen a sonnet. ``A prayer elaborately
penned.''
--Milton.
Pen \Pen\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pennedor Pent (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Penning.] [OE. pennen, AS. pennan in on-pennan to
unfasten, prob. from the same source as pin, and orig.
meaning, to fasten with a peg.See Pin, n. & v.]
To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small
inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to
inclose. ``Away with her, and pen her up.''
--Shak.
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. An old currency unit, the (w: Swedish penning). vb. (present participle of pen English)
WordNet
n. a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
an enclosure for confining livestock
a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play [syn: playpen]
a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes [syn: penitentiary]
female swan
n. the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" [syn: writing, authorship, composition]
See pen
Wikipedia
Penning may refer to:
- Norwegian penning, Norwegian currency
- Swedish penning, Swedish currency
- Penning trap, energy storage device
- Penning ionization, form of ionization
- Penning mixture, a gas mixture
- Team penning, western equestrian sport
- Pony penning, annual pony roundup on Chincoteague island
- another word for writing.
Usage examples of "penning".
Bretti saw the diplomatic pouch container holding the Penning trap near the central cylinder.
He had to deliver the old Penning trap with whatever load it had managed to store in two days.
Two insulating Dewars, one inside the other, held the Penning trap itself—three strips of room-temperature superconducting magnets that created a precise magnetic field shaped like a bottle, bouncing the p-bars back and forth along the axis.
No fuckin‘ way he was going to let these towelheads get hold of his Penning trap.
Of course, enough antimatter particles could be as deadly as a bomb—as the vaporized substation proved—but this Penning trap didn’t hold nearly enough p-bars to cause any damage.
He had brought only a simple Penning trap, a normal, low-density magnetic bottle.
Hettie Penning was with them, and everyone present had been sworn to secrecy about her share in the tragedy of the previous night.
His cavalry would cut across to the Indus and then, much like barbarian horsemen in a great hunt on the steppes, drive the game before them to the south, penning them into a narrower and narrower triangle.