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Word: pen (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A female swan.
  • An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
  • A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
  • A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
  • baseball The bullpen.
  • now|_|rare|poetic|dialectal A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
  • penalty
  • zoology The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

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Verb:

  • transitive To enclose in a pen.
  • transitive To write (an article, a book, etc.).

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