Meanings of pintle in anglès

The day watch had his harpoon loaded and tracking, swinging the gun on its pintle.

What would become of a ship if the pintle that the rudder works on were away?

At the top of the pintle, a cast-iron plate should support the base of the column above.

On the trail transom, pintle plates rimmed the hole that went over the pintle on the limber.

Before I could thank my stars, the pintle, or hook on which the rudder hangs, broke off.

He's sitting in the cupola of an armored vehicle with one gloved hand resting on a pintle-mounted machine gun.

Nose throbbing, Lana stood in the Eland's hatch, her shoulder pressed against the stock of the pintle-mounted machine gun.

Quoth another, 'Thy pintle.'

The rudder also was found to be much injured, the rudder-head being split through the centre, as low down as the upper pintle.

The big gun turned out to be a 16-centimeter converted bronze piece, mounted on a pintle in barbette, rifled and using smokeless powder.

He stood in the space that would have held a turret, with Schiebel on the pintle-mounted machine gun ahead of him and James driving.

The vehicle features hard points fore and aft for machine-gun pintle mounts and a roof designed to accommodate a 48in ring mount for heavier weapons.

Her rudder hung frozen upon its pintles, and looked as it should.

The pintles carried away, and it dropped off at last.

Pintle.-Anupright pivot pin, or the pin of a hinge; A represents the pintle of a rudder.

Anyway, he designed a narrow-profile ship with cannons that could swivel on pintles to direct all firepower forward.