PEN

Pen

A pen is an enclosure for holding livestock. The term describes multiple types of enclosures that may confine one or many animals. Construction and terminology varies depending on region of the world, purpose, animal species to be confined, local materials used, and cultural tradition. "Pen" or "penning" as a verb refers to the act of confining animals in an enclosure.

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PEN

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pen

Noun

  1. An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
    There are two steers in the third pen.
  2. A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
    They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
  3. The bullpen.
    Two righties are up in the pen.

Noun (etymology 2)

  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 A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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. A writer, or his style.
    He has a sharp pen.
  3. A light pen.
  4. The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
  5. A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
  6. A wing.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A female swan.

Noun (etymology 4)

  1. penalty

Verb

  1. To enclose in a pen.

Verb (etymology 2)

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


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