pen

noun15

1. •
   a small, thin object that holds ink and that people use to write or draw

   • He took notes with a pen.
   • another novel from the pen of everybody's fave thriller writer.
2. •
   An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

   • There are two steers in the third pen.
3. •
   (slang) A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.

   • They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
4. •
   (figurative) A writer, or their style.

   • He has a sharp pen.
5. •
   A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
6. •
   (slang) Penalty.

   • England won 3-1 on pens.
7. •
   Ellipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).
8. •
   The bullpen.

   • Two righties are up in the pen.
9. •
   (informal) Marks of ink left by a pen.

   • He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
10. •
    A female swan.
11. •
    A light pen.
12. •
    The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

    • A pen is nothing more complex than a decalcified shell, so one mutation of the genes that controlled calcification could be all it took. — 2017
13. •
    (informal) Penetration.
14. •
    (literary) A wing.

    • but feather'd soon and fledge They summed their pens, and soaring the air sublime — 1667
15. •
    (dialect, no longer used) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.

    • And eke the pennes, that did his pineons bynd, Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd, With which whenas him list the ayre to beat […] — 1590

verb3

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

   • It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song. — 2021
2. •
   To enclose in a pen.

   • Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve. — 1667
3. •
   To write or draw on (a surface) with a pen.

   • I penned up the walls with obscenities — 1973

noun2

1. •
   Abbreviation of polyethylene naphthalate.
2. •
   Abbreviation of penalty (a scorecard score when a skater is penalized out of their skate).