pen

/pɛn/

noun

  1. 1

    An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

    There are two steers in the third pen.
  2. 2

    A prison cell.

    They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
  3. 3

    The bullpen.

    Two righties are up in the pen.

verb

  1. 1

    To enclose in a pen.

noun

  1. 1

    A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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.
  2. 2

    A writer, or his style.

    He has a sharp pen.
  3. 3

    Marks of ink left by a pen.

    He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
  4. 4

    A light pen.

  5. 5

    The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

  6. 6

    A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.

  7. 7

    A wing.

verb

  1. 1

    To write (an article, a book, etc.).

noun

  1. 1

    A female swan.

noun

  1. 1

    Penalty.

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