pintle

noun

Etymology: From Middle English pyntel, from Old English pintel (“penis”), from Proto-West Germanic *pint(i), from Proto-Germanic *pint- (“protrusion”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“peg, tip, protruding point, edge”), equivalent to pin + -le. Cognate with North Frisian pint (“male member, penis”), West Frisian pyt (“male member, penis”), Dutch piet (“penis”), German Low German and German Pint (“penis”), West Flemish pint, piet (“tip, spike, penis”), Danish pint, pintel (“penis”), Norwegian dialectal pintol (“penis”), dialectal Swedish pitt (“penis”). More at pin, pen.

1. The penis.
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.”

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

4. An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves.