different between pintle vs wintle

English

Alternative forms

• pintel

Etymology

From Middle English pyntel, 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?nt?l/
• Rhymes: -?nt?l

Noun

pintle (plural pintles)

1. (now dialectal) The penis.

   Synonym: 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 quotations using this term, see Citations:pintle.
3. (gunnery) An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves.

Translations

Anagrams

• leptin, pintel

English

Etymology

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch windtelen (“to reel”); compare wentelen.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt?l

Verb

wintle (third-person singular simple present wintles, present participle wintling, simple past and past participle wintled)

1. (Scotland) To wind, to reel.
   • c. 1688-1746, Author not recorded, Cumberland and Murray's Descent into Hell, 1861, Charles Mackay (editor), The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland from 1688 to 1746, page 266,

     The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.

   • 1974, Austin Clarke, quoted in 1981, G. Craig Tapping, Austin Clarke: A Study of His Writings, page 282,

     Along the cliffs a breeze wintled.

2. (Scotland) To stagger, to sway or rock.
3. (Scotland) To tumble, to capsize.
   • 1901, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters, 2011, page 214,

     At a quick turn o' the road they wintled owre, and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them!

4. (Scotland) To wriggle.
   • 2002, Micaela Gilchrist, The Good Journey, US, page 222,

     Miss Radford wintled across the floor on her bottom until she slumped beside Eloise, who rolled her eyes and bared her lower teeth.

Derived terms

• wintler

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• Wintel