A simple fastening or coupling device made so that the object fastened to it can turn freely upon it, or so that each half of the swivel itself can…

A short shaft or pin, usually of metal and pointed, forming the centre on which a mechanism turns or oscillates, as the pin of a hinge, or the…

The ring or ‘eye’ in the ‘heel’ of a gate which turns on the hook or pintle in the gatepost.

= turn-pin n. (a) at turn-, comb._form affix; also attrib.

(See quot. 1611) Obsolete. rare.

Each of a pair of opposite gudgeons on the sides of a cannon, upon which it is pivoted upon its carriage. (Disused in large modern guns.)

A peg or axle on which something turns. Also figurative. Obsolete.

apparently A swivel. Obsolete.

A pin or slender rod upon which anything turns; a spindle.

An iron pivot on which a gate or a frame for washing ore turns.

(a) a pin that turns, or on which something turns; a pivot; (b) a conical plug for stopping or enlarging the end of a pipe.

a pin or pintle which fastens together the parts of a hinge.