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Definition of 'pen'Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at pin.
Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to enclosure for persons (1845), later influenced by
Noun
( en-noun)
An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- There are two steers in the third pen .
A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
- They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
(baseball) The bullpen.
- Two righties are up in the pen .
Verb
To enclose in a pen.
* Milton
- Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (Modern English (m));Noun
( en-noun)
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
- He took notes with a pen .
(figurative) A writer, or his style.
- He has a sharp pen .
* Fuller
- those learned pens
A light pen.
(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
* 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
- And eke the pennes , that did his pineons bynd, / Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd, / With which whenas him list the ayre to beat
(poetic) A wing.
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* ball pen
* ball-point pen
* border pen
* bull pen
* cartridge pen
* felt-tip pen
( rel-mid3)
* fountain pen
* goose pen
* lettering pen
* pen cancellation
* pen feather
* pen-mate
( rel-mid3)
* penmanship
* pen name
* pen pal
* pen-pusher
* poison pen
* you don't dip your pen in company ink
( rel-bottom)
Verb
(penn)
To write (an article, a book, etc.).
Etymology 3
Origin uncertain.
Etymology 4
Shortned form of penalty
References
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