Citations:pintle

Noun: pin or bolt acting as a pivot for a hinge or rudder

 * 1960, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights LXXXVIII, issues xi–xii, page 7,259:
 * In a hinge construction including two overlapping members to be hinged together along a vertical pivotal axis, the first of said members having an apertured vertical margin extending laterally and remote from said pivotal axis, and the second of said members overlying the first and having an apertured edge at said axis and an underturned vertical margin adapted to overlie and be parallel to said apertured vertical margin of said first member, and hinge means connecting said members along said axis and comprising upper and lower hinge plates, one having an elongated leg extending from said axis over said apertured edge of said second member and through said apertured margin, of said first member and secured therebehind to said first member, said other plate extending from said axis directly through said apertured edge of said second member and being secured therebehind, said hinge plates having vertically aligned pintle portions hinged to one another along said axis, said elongated hinge plate having contiguous leg portions extending transversely across said edge of said second member parallel thereto and through said apertured margin of said first member and terminating behind said apertured margin in divergent fastening extremities.
 * 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.