Pen vs. Pew

Pennoun

An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

‘There are two steers in the third pen.’;

Pewnoun

One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.

‘In many churches some pews are reserved for either clerical or liturgical officials such as canons, or for prominent families.’;

Pennoun

(slang) A prison cell.

‘They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.’;

Pewnoun

An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family.

Pennoun

(baseball) The bullpen.

‘Two righties are up in the pen.’;

Pewnoun

Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold.

Pennoun

A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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.’;

Pewnoun

A chair; a seat.

‘Pull up a pew.’;

Pennoun

(figurative) A writer, or his style.

‘He has a sharp pen.’;

Pewverb

To furnish with pews.

Pennoun

(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.

‘He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.’;

Pewinterjection

An expression of disgust in response to an unpleasant odor.

Pennoun

A light pen.

Pewinterjection

Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun.

Pennoun

(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

Pewnoun

One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; - sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow.

Pennoun

A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.

Pewnoun

Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold.

Pennoun

(poetic) A wing.

Pewverb

To furnish with pews.

Pennoun

A female swan.

Pewnoun

long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation

Pennoun

penalty

Pew

A pew () is a long bench seat or enclosed box, used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church, synagogue or sometimes a courtroom.

Penverb

(transitive) To enclose in a pen.

Penverb

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

Pennoun

A feather.

Pennoun

A wing.

Pennoun

An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.

‘Graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock.’;

Pennoun

Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.

Pennoun

The internal shell of a squid.

Pennoun

A female swan; - contrasted with cob, the male swan.

Pennoun

A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.

‘My father stole two geese out of a pen.’;

Pennoun

A penitentiary[6]; a prison.

Penverb

To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.

Penverb

To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.

‘Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.’;

Pennoun

a writing implement with a point from which ink flows

Pennoun

an enclosure for confining livestock

Pennoun

a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play

Pennoun

a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes

Pennoun

female swan

Penverb

produce a literary work;

‘She composed a poem’; ‘He wrote four novels’;

Pennoun

an instrument for writing or drawing with ink, typically consisting of a metal nib or ball, or a nylon tip, fitted into a metal or plastic holder.

Pennoun

the occupation of writing

‘she was forced to support herself by the pen’;

Pennoun

an electronic device like a pen, used in conjunction with a writing surface to enter commands or data into a computer.

Pennoun

the tapering cartilaginous internal shell of a squid.

Pennoun

a small enclosure in which sheep, pigs, or other farm animals are kept

‘a sheep pen’;

Pennoun

a number of animals in or sufficient to fill a pen

‘a pen of twenty-five Cheviots’;

Pennoun

any small enclosure in which someone or something can be confined

‘she took the baby out of the pen and played with it’;

Pennoun

a covered dock for a submarine or other warship

‘U-boat pens’;

Pennoun

(in the West Indies) a farm or plantation.

Pennoun

a female swan.

Pennoun

short for penitentiary (sense 1)

‘you could get twenty years in a federal pen for shooting your mouth off like that’;

Penverb

write or compose

‘Olivia penned award-winning poetry’;

Penverb

put or keep (an animal) in a pen

‘it was the practice to pen the sheep for clipping’; ‘these cattle need to be penned in at night’;

Penverb

confine someone in a restricted space

‘they had been penned up day and night in the house’;

Pen

A pen is a common writing instrument used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. Historically, reed pens, quill pens, and dip pens were used, with a nib dipped in ink.