The parts of the hinges are called the pintle (the pin) and gudgeon (the opening into which the pin fits). From Wordnik.com. [Sailing Fundamentals] Reference
Many such muskets come with a inherent pintle mount so that they can be braced while standing; it requires a move action to set up the pintle. From Wordnik.com. [Firearms for Pathfinder « Geek Related] Reference
I ate ramps and spinach and pintle shoots and fiddleheads, everything green and full of life. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
I found fat pintle shoots poking through dead leaves, fiddleheads in bracken beds, and lily bulbs. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
All laughed at his words till they fell on their backs, and one said, “Thy pintle!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Note the addition of a GPMG on the pintle mounting. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
Furthermore, the vehicle can be armed with four pintle mounted machine guns – two more than the WIMIK. From Wordnik.com. [We are soooo happy for them!] Reference
The pintle gives a swinging support to the rudder. From Wordnik.com. [Sailing Fundamentals] Reference
Most rudders use a stop just above the pintle and gudgeon to prevent the rudder from popping out. From Wordnik.com. [Sailing Fundamentals] Reference
The gunner behind the pintle-mounted launcher swayed as the driver gunned the fans and slid the vehicle down the dirt track. From Wordnik.com. [The City Who Fought]
Whatever a book said would lack something essential and be as useless by itself as the gudgeon to a door hinge with no pintle. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
The lower pintle of the rudder is gone, but no other damage is sustained by it. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
On the trail transom, pintle plates rimmed the hole that went over the pintle on the limber. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Sometimes, as in blind-hinges, the pintle is fastened into one knuckle, but turns freely in the other. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Presently her hand wandered down to where my stiff standing pintle was throbbing against her belly, her hand closed upon my staff, which felt to me bigger and bigger every moment, and must even then have been a good six inches. From Wordnik.com. [Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle] Reference
I want him to shove the pintle into the lower gudgeon. From Wordnik.com. [Moran of the Lady Letty] Reference
My pintle is big and the little one said unto me, "Tilt boldly therewith at my inwards and quit thee thy need.". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
` Twas a marvel the stern itself had not been blown out: but as a set-off against this mercy -- and the most grievous of all, though as yet we had not discovered it -- we had lost our rudder-head, and the rudder itself hung by a single pintle. From Wordnik.com. [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference
You will find the goods sunk astern, and the buoy-rope to them fastened to the lower pintle of the rudder. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Faithful] Reference
The rudder also was found to be much injured, the rudder-head being split through the centre, as low down as the upper pintle. From Wordnik.com. [True Blue] Reference
The stationary machines are available as either a skid unit or a moveable unit with a pintle hitch. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
Pickup trucks allow for the welding and creating of pintle mount turrets in the cargo area, so any survivors can help suppress the walking dead with flying lead. From Wordnik.com. [SPIKE Featured Videos] Reference
Showing control motor for ACS on LAS (pintle valves rapidly open and shut to control attitude). From Wordnik.com. [Transterrestrial Musings] Reference
Since then, the company has evolved the technology for multiple applications, and is currently working with NASA to develop the throttling pintle injector technology as a candidate propulsion option for the Altair lunar lander. From Wordnik.com. [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference
Then for want of cuckoo-pint, or priest-pintle, lousebur, clote, and paper, we made ourselves false faces with the leaves of an old Sextum that had been thrown by and lay there for anyone that would take it up, cutting out holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
This vehicle comes with power windows, power locks, power mirrors, ICE COLD a/c, 2WD - two wheel drive, amfm cd, DRW - dual rear wheels, tow package w/pintle hitch, bedliner, 16 "Chevrolet wheels and much more. From Wordnik.com. [craigslist | all for sale / wanted in chicago] Reference
The driver had only one chain across the back of the 'skytrak "' lift through the pintle hook. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Quoth another, 'Thy pintle.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference
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