pintle

Middle English pintil, from Old English pintel (“penis”), from Proto-Germanic *pint- (“protrusion”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“peg, tip, protruding point, edge”), equivalent to pin +‎ -le. Cognate with Middle Low German pint (“male member, penis”), West Flemish pint (“tip”), Norwegian dialectal pintol (“penis”). More at pin, pen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪntəl/
• Rhymes: -ɪntəl

pintle (plural pintles)

1. (now dialectal) The penis, or tarse.
2. (nautical) A pin or bolt, usually vertical, which acts as a pivot for a hinge or a rudder.
   • 2005, James Meek, The People’s Act of Love, Canongate (2006), page 31:

     The train had a searchlight mounted on a pintle on a flat car.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:pintle.
3. (gunnery) An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves.

• leptin, pintel