noun

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

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There are two steers in the third pen.

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A prison cell.

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

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The bullpen.

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Two righties are up in the pen.

verb

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To enclose in a pen.

noun

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A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.

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He took notes with a pen.

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A writer, or his style.

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He has a sharp pen.

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Marks of ink left by a pen.

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

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A light pen.

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

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

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A wing.

verb

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

noun

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A female swan.

noun

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Penalty.

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In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d.

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In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p.

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In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.

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In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1/100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.

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In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.

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A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.

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Money in general.

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to turn an honest penny

Examples of pens in a Sentence

Editors of journals remove the slips of the pens of their contributors; editors of books, nowadays usually in footnotes, the similar lapses of their authors.

The monasteries had ceased to be even the nurseries of literature; their chronicles had run dry, and secular priests or laymen had taken up the pens that the monks had dropped.

Martha handed out paper and pens before we left the house.

The top drawer contained the usual assortment of pens, pencils and paperclips.

In upper Italy cattle are principally reared in pens and stalls; in central Italy cattle are allowed to run half wild, the stall system being little practised; in the south and in the islands cattle are kept in the open air, few shelters being provided.

Every word of Pierre's burned into his heart, and with a nervous movement of his fingers he unconsciously broke the sealing wax and quill pens his hands came upon on his uncle's table.

The most important works dealing with fruit and other pests come from the pens of Saunders, Lintner, Riley, Slingerland and others in America and Canada, from Taschenberg, Lampa, Reuter and Kollar in Europe, and from French, Froggatt and Tryon in Australia.

This was the origin of the clandestine press of Holland, and it was that country which for the next hundred years supplied the ablest periodical criticism from the pens of French Protestant refugees.

We can't remember all that we hear, so we make pens and paper.

One of the pens in his hands snapped, and she took a step back.

Nearly everyone uses ball point pens.

A stack of file folders was neatly arranged on one side, while a half-dozen pens, all facing in the same direction, were perfectly centered on the desk blotter.

And the rych men that bath moche catell wold have the advantage, and the poore man can have no help nor relefe in wynter when he bath moste nede; and if an acre of lande be worthe sixe pens, or it be enclosed, it will be worth VIII.

Thus, to say that a pen is an entity and the class of pens is an entity is merely a play upon the word "entity"; the second sense of "entity" (if any) is indeed derived from the first, but has a more complex signification.

From the light and slender stalks shafts for arrows are obtained; and in the south-west of Asia there is a certain species of equally slender growth, from which writing pens or reeds are made.

A joint forms a holder for papers or pens, and it was in a joint of bamboo that silk-worm eggs were carried from China to Constantinople during the reign of Justinian.

Hitherto our attention has been given wholly to Germany and France, for the chief ornithologists of Britain were occupying themselves at this time in a very useless way - not paying due heed at this time to the internal structure of birds, and some excellent descriptive memoirs on special forms had appeared from their pens, to say nothing of more than one general treatise on ornithic anatomy.

Crusaders themselves kept diaries or itineraria; while home-keeping ecclesiastics in the West - monks like Robert of Reims, abbots like Guibert of Nogent, archbishops like Balderich of Dol - found a fertile subject for their pens in the history of the Crusades.

To this day the spoken language of Japanese women is appreciably simpler and softer than that of the men, and to this day while the educated woman uses the hiragana syllabary in writing, eschews Chinese sords and rarel pens an ideograph, the educated man employs the ideograp entirely, and translates his thoughts as far as possible into thi mispronounced Chinese words without recourse -to which it would be impossible for him to discuss any scientific subject, or even tc refer to the details of his daily business.

Capture begins among the lower tribes with the hand, without devices, developing knack and skill in seizing, pursuing, climbing, swimming, and maiming without weapons; and proceeds to gathering with devices that take the place of the hand in dipping, digging, hooking and grasping; weapons for striking, whether clubs, missiles or projectiles; edged weapons of capture, which were rare in America; piercing devices for capture, in lances, barbed spears, harpoons and arrows; traps for enclosing, arresting and killing, such as pens, cages, pits, pen-falls, nets, hooks, nooses, clutches, adhesives, deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, burning out and smoking out; poisons and asphyxiators; the accessories to hunting, including such changes in food, dress, shelter, travelling, packing, mechanical tools and intellectual apparatus as demanded by these arts.

In registering the movements of the wings the tips and margins of the pinions were, by an ingenious modification, employed as the styles or pens.

If immortals are pens, and normal humans are number two pencils, then she's a mechanical pencil.

He fidgeted with a couple of pens and doodled geometric shapes similar to those around her neck onto stationery bearing the seal of the bed and breakfast.

I try to avoid pens whenever I'm feeling it because pens try to make emotions eloquent, and they're not.

We treat injured badgers, where appropriate in our holding pens.

In those years, we didn't have biro 's, we used ink pens.

First, there is their fecundity, the seemingly ceaseless flow of words from their pens.

It's also useful to have some fat crayons, thick washable felt tip pens or chalk.

Never was the Press so debased as in publishing the productions of their pens.

All vintage fountain pens have been fully restored and are in good working order.

As it is a strictly limited edition writing instrument, all such fountain pens are numbered.

But you can also ask a friend to hold up cards on which you have written with marker pens!

Instead of concrete feed towers and 100 or so grotesque concrete pens, I now see slender young cherry trees and limes.

Sigma designs and makes the most beautiful pens imaginable.

There Beetle found a fat arm-chair, a silver inkstand, and unlimited pens and paper.

It is believed that AgriProcessors is the only kosher abattoir in the US that still uses these pens.

They were then held in shallow sea pens, which were heavily guarded by armed militia.

The ink pens we used were very basic, just a wooden handle like a pencil with a metal nib at the end.

Madeleine Kane pens another political parody 3rd July 2002 Madeleine Kane is the author of numerous political song parodies.

Don't use pencil or colored pens to fill in the form.

Locked in their small, barren pens the dogs would turn on each other.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

The museum has many examples of fountain pens from the early Waterman's to the present day.

As a leading manufacturer, it now also produces markers and felt-tip pens.

With pens poised, we all prepared for the numbers to be announced.

They include a traditional Scottish quaich, items of crystal, business card holders, key rings, pens and more.

Simply send a requisition for the number of envelopes or pens you need.

Continuous recording models are available with 1, 2, or 3 channels; they include high quality sapphire tipped pens for long life.

We supply all the relevant items that are needed for karaoke, including songbooks, request slips & pens.

When the sluices are open dangerous undertows may be encountered in the pens.

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