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Definition: Pintle |
PintleNoun1. A pin or bolt forming the pivot of a hinge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pintle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1929. (references) |
Note: Pintle \Pin"tle\, noun. [A diminutive of Pin.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | A short cylindrical piece upon and about which something rotates or oscillates. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A vertical pin fastened at the bottom that serves as a center of rotation. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | The heavy pins or bolts on the forward edge of the rudder frame, by which the rudder is hinged to the gudgeons of the sternpost. Also called rudder pintle. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Pintle |
| English words defined with "pintle": Wood lock. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pintle": rudder pintle. (references) |
Expressions using "pintle": pintle boss ♦ rudder pintle. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pintle hook | 23 |
pintle hitch | 18 |
lock pintle | 18 |
pintle | 11 |
pintle hitch trailer | 9 |
hitches pintle | 4 |
hook pintle trailer | 3 |
pintle trailer | 3 |
mount pintle | 3 |
pintle ring | 2 |
ball pintle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pintle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kunj (axle pin, dowel, hob, key, linchpin, peg, picket, pin, piquet, Spike, spile, spline, tenon, toggle), gjilpërë (injection, needle, pin). (various references) | |
Arabic | محور إرتكاز رأسي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | щифт (axle pin, dowel, locking-finger, nog, peg, pin, plug, splint, sprig, toggle), шенкелов болт (pin), вертикална шарнирна ос. (various references) | |
Chinese | 扣'套. (various references) | |
Danish | tap (butt, chuck, core, disc pivot, dowel, hinge bolt, journal, peg, pivot, shoulder, spigot, spike tooth, sprue, tack, tap, tenon, wire nail), rortap (rudder pintle), drejetap (bogie pin, bogie pivot, hinge bolt, inner shaft, journal, king pin, king pivot, pivot, pivot pin, spindle, swivel, upper centre casting). (various references) | |
Dutch | vingerling (cot, finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, fingerstall, finger-stall, pintle boss, rudder lug, rudder pintle, rudder post gudgeons, rudder snug), tap (electric plug, faucet, pivot, plug, spindle, stopper, tap), taats (pivot), spil (axis, axle, pivot, spindle), scharnierpin (hinge bolt, pivot), scharnierbout (hinge bolt, pivot), roerpen (rudder pintle), as (arbor, ash, axis, axle, cinder, shaft, spindle). (various references) | |
Finnish | pultti (bolt, peg, pin), peräsintappi (rudder pintle), peräsinhakatappi (rudder pintle), tappi (pin, plug, stopper, tap, tenon). (various references) | |
French | pivot (pivot, pivotal), tourillon d'articulation (pivot), tourillon (crank pin bearing roll nock, gudgeon pin, piston pin, pivot), maneton (pivot), boulon d'articulation (pivot), axe (pin, pivot), aiguillot de gouvernail (rudder pintle), aiguillot (rudder pintle). (various references) | |
German | Zapfenwelle (pivot, spindle, swivel), Zapfen (bung, cone, draw, faucet, gudgeon, icicle, pin, pull, spigot, spigots, stopper, tap, tenon, trunnion, trunnions), Wellenzapfen (pivot, shaft journal, spindle, swivel, trunnion), Spurzapfen (journal for axial load, pivot, pivot-journal), Ruderzapfen (rudder pintle), Ruderhaken (rudder pintle), Ruderfingerling (rudder pintle), Gelenkbolzen (hinge bolt, pivot), Fingerling (finger stall), Drehestift (pivot, spindle, swivel), Bolzen (bolt, bolts, gib, gib head, kick about, kick around, pin, slam). (various references) | |
Greek | καρφίο (pin), στροφέας (inner shaft, journal, journal for axial load, pivot, pivot-journal, plug, spindle, swivel), στροφείο (pivot, tourniquet, turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), μικρόσ άξων, άξονας-ακίδα (hinge bolt, pivot), θαιρός πηδαλίου (rudder pintle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פין ""'". (various references) | |
Hungarian | sarkcsap (pivot). (various references) | |
Italian | perno di cerniera (articulated rod, hinge bolt, hinge rod, pivot), perno (axis, axle, gib, gudgeon, hinge, hub, kingpin, mainstay, pin, pivot, spindle, stud, support, swivel), snodo (articulated joint, junction), bullone di cerniera (hinge bolt, pivot), asta (bar, boom, dipstick, pole, rod, shaft, spar), alberino (pivot, spindle, swivel), agugliotto (rudder pintle). (various references) | |
Korean | 핀틀. (various references) | |
Manx | yiarn stiuree, pinn stiuree (rudder post, tiller). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intlepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | macho do leme (rudder pintle). (various references) | |
Romanian | pivot (cone, gudgeon, hinge, pivot, Spike, spindle, Trunnion), bolţ de cârmã, ax vertical. (various references) | |
Russian | рулевой крюк, штырь, шкворень (kingbolt), вертикальная ось. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vertikalna osovina, oslonac za veslo. (various references) | |
Spanish | pivote (gib, pin, pivot, swivel), perno (bolt, pin), quicio (doorjamb, pivothole), quicial (pivot, spindle, swivel), macho del timón (rudder pintle), macho (buck, bully, butch, he, macho, male, man, mate, pin, plug, sledgehammer, tap). (various references) | |
Swedish | pivot (hinge bolt, pivot), tapp (dowel, faucet, flock, peg, plug, spigot, tap, tenon, wisp), roderhake. (various references) | |
Turkish | pim (Gib, gudgeon, pin), mil (Arbor, axle, axle tree, cannon, gudgeon, mile, milliary, pin, pivot, probe, shaft, spindle, style, stylus, tree), iğne (brooch, injection, jab, needle, pin, pointer, prick, shot, spicule, spine, sting, stinger), eksen (axial, axis, axle, pivot, pivotal, rachis, spindle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | штифт (pin), вісь (axis, axle, center, centre, kingpin), болт (bolt, clincher, dag). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trục, chốt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pintle": pintles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pintle" (pronounced 'Pin"tle'): Apostle, Attle, Belittle, Berattle, Berstle, Betitle, brittle, Cattle, Chortle, Dartle, Embottle, gristle, gruntle, guttle, Kettle, kirtle, mettle, Mistitle, Mistle, Nurstle, Nustle, Outmantle, Overbattle, Overtitle, Overwrestle, Portmantle, Pottle, Ruttle, Satle, skittle, Smartle, Spirtle, Spurtle, Supersubtle, thistle, throstle, tittle, tootle, trestle, Uncastle, ungentle, Unmantle, Unnestle, Whirtle, Whortle, Wrastle. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: elint, inept, inlet. | |
-2 letters: lent, lept, lien, line, lint, lipe, lite, nite, pein, pelt, pent, pile, pine, pint, plie, tile, tine. | |
-3 letters: lei, let, lie, lin, lip, lit, net, nil, nip, nit, pen, pet, pie, pin, pit, tel, ten, tie, til, tin, tip. | |
-4 letters: el, en, et, in, it, li, ne, pe, pi, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: ineptly, pantile, pelting, penlite, pintles, plenist, potline, topline. | |
+2 letters: antipole, interlap, leptonic, palatine, panelist, pantiled, pantiles, penality, penlight, penlites, pestling, petaline, pettling, pieplant, plainest, pleating, plenists, plenties, plotline, potlines, splinted, splinter, tapeline, terpinol, tholepin, tinplate, toplines, trapline, triplane, tumpline, unpolite. | |
+3 letters: analeptic, antipoles, antisleep, bluepoint, blueprint, depleting, depletion, diplotene, epilation, implanted, implanter, implement, inculpate, interlaps, interlope, interplay, interpled, lithopone, nephelite, nilpotent, painterly, palatines, paltering, panelists, patiently, pelleting, peltering, penalties, penlights, penultima, perinatal, pestilent, phonolite, pieplants, pinnately, plaintext, plaintive, planetoid, plantlike, platinize, plenitude, plentiful, plotlines, pointedly, pointelle, pointless, pollinate, potential, princelet, printable, printless, quintuple, reimplant, replating, repletion, reptilian, sapiently, simpleton, splenetic, splinters, splintery, tailplane, tapelines, terpineol, terpinols, tholepins, tinplates, traplines, triplanes, tumplines, unplaited. | |
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