: a usually upright pivot pin on which another part turns
Examples of pintle in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebEarly on, in fact, SpaceX had a legal confrontation with Northrop over the pintle engine injector technology used in the Merlin rocket engine that powered the Falcon 1, and later Falcon 9 rocket.—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2024 The horizontal weld that attaches a mild steel angle to the slider rail for super doubles/pintle hook operations may be missing.—Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2021
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English pintel, literally, penis, from Old English; akin to Middle Low German pint penis, Old English pinn pin
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