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Pintle   Listen
noun
Pintle  n.  
1.
A little pin.
2.
(Mech.) An upright pivot pin; as:
(a)
The pivot pin of a hinge.
(b)
A hook or pin on which a rudder hangs and turns.
(c)
A pivot about which the chassis swings, in some kinds of gun carriages.
(d)
A kingbolt of a wagon.






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"Pintle" Quotes from Famous Books



... out, all the rest would be ineffectual. In a great machine all its parts are equally necessary, and a defect in a cog on a wheel would be as fatal as a flaw in the cylinder or a crack in the mighty shaft. What would become of a ship if the pintle that the rudder works on were away? The effect of a whole orchestra may depend on the coming in of the flute at the ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren



Words linked to "Pintle" :   hinge, pin



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