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Definition of Pintles
1. pintle [n] - See also: pintle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pintles
Literary usage of Pintles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"Also, should the rudder be struck by a heavy sea, individual pintles might suffer
... Formerly the pintles were usually forged in one solid piece with the ..."
2. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"pintles and Shoes.—Two forms of pintle are in general use; ... pintles of the
second design have proved equally and sometimes more durable in practice, ..."
3. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"0 Beam Box Elevation Base of Column Fia. 86.—Some special details used in framing
mill construction. 69. pintles Over Columns are Fundamental to Type. ..."
4. The London Journal of Arts and Sciences by William Newton (1830)
"I mean it to be understood that my only claim under my said invention is for
making the pins or pivots of the hanging pintles, and the bearing studs (or ..."
5. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1859)
"... (as he calls them) that settled on the ^pintles at the top-mast heads, and
burnt like very large torches (before the stroke.) According to my opinion, ..."
6. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress edited by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1830)
"I mean it to be understood that my only claim under my said invention is for
making the pins or pivots of the hanging pintles, and the bearing studs (or ..."
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