Crossword clues for pintle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pintle \Pin"tle\, n. [A diminutive of Pin.]
A little pin.
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(Mech.) An upright pivot pin; as:
The pivot pin of a hinge.
A hook or pin on which a rudder hangs and turns.
A pivot about which the chassis swings, in some kinds of gun carriages.
A kingbolt of a wagon.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now dialectal English) The penis. 2 (context nautical English) A pin or bolt, usually vertical, which acts as a pivot for a hinge or a rudder. 3 (context gunnery English) An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves.
WordNet
n. a pin or bolt forming the pivot of a hinge
Wikipedia
A pintle is a pin or bolt, usually inserted into a gudgeon, which is used as part of a pivot or hinge. Other applications include pintle and lunette ring for towing, and pintle pins securing casters in furniture.
Usage examples of "pintle".
The stones had shifted so much that the gate pintles were a full inch out of true, and cracks had appeared in the guardroom walls.
These knuckles separated slightly, because the pintles were no longer present to hold them together in a single barrel.
Shipping the rudder was the hardest he had to grip her round the waist while she plunged head-under several times before the pintles and gudgeons were engaged then they rested for a while, driving under poles.
He had the rudder lifted from its pintles and laid on deck so it would not drag in the weeds.
Once in place the gun system inserted the pintle and trunnions making the whole system ready to fire.
If the barrel of the hinge had been left unshielded, you would still have needed an array of heavy-duty power tools, diamond-tipped drill bits, and a lot of time to fracture those knuckles and jack out the pintle In every surface of the room, the war between light and darkness raged more furiously, battalions of shadows clashing with armies of light in ever more frenzied assaults, to the harrowing shriek-hiss-whistle of the unfelt winds and the ceaseless, ghastly screaming.
The rudder pintles were greased so they would not squeak and the tholes, which held the oars, were wrapped in rags while the hull and oars were painted black with Stockholm tar.
Beneath him the pintles of the rudder were groaning in the gudgeons, and the sea was seething yeastily in white foam under the counter.