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pen

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"Writing instrument"

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3 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɛn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted enpStarts with PEnds with N17 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. produce a literary work

Word origin

From Middle English pen, penne (“enclosure for animals”), from Old English penn (“enclosure, fold, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *pennō, *pannijō (“pin, bolt, nail, tack”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pin.

Used in a sentence

  • “There are two steers in the third pen.”
  • “They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.”
  • “Two righties are up in the pen.”

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Used as a crossword answer17 curated clues

01“Writing instrument”3 letters
02“Small animal enclosure”3 letters
03“Ballpoint, for one”3 letters
04“Fountain writer”3 letters
05“Ink tool”3 letters
06“Ink tool for signing”3 letters
07“Ink writer”3 letters
08“Ink-writing tool”3 letters
09“Pig enclosure”3 letters
10“Place for pigs”3 letters
11“Signing tool”3 letters
12“Tool for ink writing”3 letters
13“Write with ink”3 letters
14“Writer's tool”3 letters
15“Writing tool with ink”3 letters
16“Enclosure”3 letters
17“Writing tool”3 letters

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