Pintle
//ˈpɪntəl//
"Pintle" in a Sentence (2 examples)
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.
The train had a searchlight mounted on a pintle on a flat car.
More for "pintle"
Next best steps
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.