pintles
Rudder mounting hardware
Pintles are pins or bolts that serve as pivot points for hinges, allowing doors, gates, or other objects to swing.
The term appears most often in nautical contexts, where pintles are the vertical pins on a boat's transom that fit into gudgeons to mount the rudder.
The pintles had corroded, making the rudder difficult to turn.
In military usage, a pintle mount is a swiveling bracket that holds a machine gun on a vehicle.
Point of rotation
- pinPointed metal fastener
- bearingPosture or orientation
- shaftNarrow vertical passage
- bushingFriction-reducing sleeve insert
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pivot
Point of rotation
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rudder
Pivoting stern blade
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cannon
Large mounted gun
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- carriageWheeled passenger vehicle
- gunProjectile-launching weapon
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