Noun: pintle
| Singular | pintle |
| Plural | pintles |
Sample Sentences
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Climbing through the hatch and passing aft along the main deck, he heard for himself the suck-suck from the pump well, then the rattle of tiller and creak of pintle as the helmsmen eased her off and brought her on to meet a rising sea. [1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8:]
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The train had a searchlight mounted on a pintle on a flat car. [2005, James Meek, The People’s Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 31:]
Nouns inflected like pintle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English pyntel, from Old English pintel (“penis”), from Proto-West Germanic *pint(i), from Proto-Germanic *pint- (“protrusion”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“peg, tip, protruding point, edge”), equivalent to pin + -le. Cognate with North Frisian pint (“male member, penis”), West Frisian pyt (“male member, penis”), Dutch piet (“penis”), German Low German and German Pint (“penis”), West Flemish pint, piet (“tip, spike, penis”), Danish pint, pintel (“penis”), Norwegian dialectal pintol (“penis”), dialectal Swedish pitt (“penis”). More at pin, pen. See: Middle English Nouns '
pyntel', Old English Nouns '
pintel', Dutch Nouns '
piet', German Nouns '
Pint', Swedish Nouns '
pitt'.
Verbs referencing "pintle"
English Nouns
penis, German Nouns
Pint.