Definitions for penning

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IPA: /ˈpɛn ɪŋ/

Penning is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in penning (eginnnp).

Definitions for penning

noun

1. pitching.
2. any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
3. a detachable metal penpoint, filled by dipping or with a quill; nib.
4. such a penpoint with its penholder.
5. fountain pen.
6. ball-point pen.
7. the pen as the instrument of writing or authorship:
8. a person's style or quality of writing:
9. a writer:
10. the profession of writing:
11. Computers. stylus (def 3).
12. Ornithology. a quill. a pinfeather.
13. something resembling or suggesting a feather or quill.
14. Zoology. an internal, corneous or chitinous, feather-shaped structure in certain cephalopods, as the squid.
15. a small enclosure for domestic animals.
16. animals so enclosed:
17. an enclosure used for confinement or safekeeping:
18. playpen.
19. bull pen.
20. a dock having a protective concrete structure overhead, used to service and repair submarines.

verb (used with object)

1. to write with or as with a pen; put down in writing:
2. to draw with or as with a pen:
3. to confine in or as in a pen.

Origin of penning

First recorded in 1620-30; pen² + -ing¹

Examples for penning

Let it not be supposed, from what I have just said, that I am detailing any mystery, or penning any romance.

This discourse was the cause of his penning a letter to his brother.

Elena shared wider, by penning hopeful, contemplative letters to John Paul every few weeks, which she posted on a blog.

She was collecting some essays and penning an introductory memoir.

After penning her own memoir, Canyon decided to own it, “so I self published,” she said.

We made it practical to give Dunham a $3.7 million book advance for penning her memoir—at 28.

NewSong member Eddie Carswell talks about penning the saddest holiday song of all time.

Let me be as brief as I can in penning the details, which almost sicken me while I recall them.

This is the only explanation we can give for penning this memorial.

Yet Rush has championed civil rights for much of his career, last year penning a column honoring the late Martin Luther King Jr.