pintle

/pin-tl/US // ˈpɪn tl //UK // (ˈpɪntəl) //

枢轴,枢轴式,销轴,销轴式

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a pin or bolt, especially one on which something turns, as the gudgeon of a hinge.
- : a pin, bolt, or hook by which a gun or the like is attached to the rear of a towing vehicle.
- : a cast iron or steel base for a wooden post, often cast in a single piece with a cap for a lower post.

The rudder also was found to be much injured, the rudder-head being split through the centre, as low down as the upper pintle.
Pintle, pin′tl, n. a little pin: a long iron bolt: the bolt or pin on which the rudder of a ship turns.
It will be noted that the truck center pintle is in fact the fulcrum for this leverage.
The barbette carriage revolves about a central pintle, or axis, and turns the gun around with it.
Her timbers had started, her sides were coated with green weed; her rudder, wrenched from its pintle, lay hopelessly askew.