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Penning

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.

Penning

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
penning

n. An old currency unit, the (w: Swedish penning). vb. (present participle of pen English)

WordNet
pen
  1. v. produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" [syn: write, compose, indite]

  2. [also: pent, penning, penned]

pen
  1. n. a writing implement with a point from which ink flows

  2. an enclosure for confining livestock

  3. a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play [syn: playpen]

  4. a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes [syn: penitentiary]

  5. female swan

  6. [also: pent, penning, penned]

penning

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]

penning

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Wikipedia
Penning

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.