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Pinion

//ˈpɪnjən// name, noun, verb

Proper Noun

Noun

1
A wing.
"Therefore do nimble Pinion'd Doues draw Loue, And therefore hath the wind-ſwift Cupid wings:"
2
The smallest gear in a gear train. transitive
"1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels."
3
wing of a bird wordnet
4
The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
5
any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird wordnet

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6
Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
"An argument that he is pluckt, when hither / He ſends ſo poore a Pinnion of his Wing,"
7
a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack wordnet
8
A moth of the genus Lithophane.

Verb

1
To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying. transitive
"They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them."
2
cut the wings off (of birds) wordnet
3
To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding. transitive
"“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”"
4
bind the arms of wordnet
5
To restrain; to limit. figuratively, transitive
"Know, sir that I / Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court, / Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia."

Etymology 1

From Middle English pynyon, from Old French pignon, from Latin penna (“feather”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English pynyon, from Old French pignon, from Latin penna (“feather”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French pignon.

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