pen
- Noun. An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- Noun. A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
- Noun. (baseball) The bullpen.
- Verb. (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
- Noun. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
- Noun. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- Noun. (context, now) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
- Verb. (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
- Noun. A female swan.
- Noun. penalty.
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