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pintles

pintles is the plural of pintle.

Meaning of pintle

Noun

pintle (plural pintles)

  1. (dialectal) The penis.
    Synonyms:
    tarse
  2. A pin on the buckle of a belt used to fit into the holes of the belt and hold it at the desired level of tightness.
  3. A pin or bolt, usually vertical, which acts as a pivot for a hinge or a rudder.
    • 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
  4. An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves.

Questions about pintles

What is pintles the plural of?
Pintles is the plural of pintle.

Words near pintles in the dictionary

  1. pintglass
  2. pintglasses
  3. pintid
  4. pintids
  5. pintle
  6. pintles
  7. pintless
  8. pintman
  9. pintmen
  10. pinto
  11. pinto bean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pintles (page history and authors); pintle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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