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Pinion   /pˈɪnjən/   Listen
Pinion

noun
1.
A gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack.
2.
Any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird.  Synonyms: flight feather, quill, quill feather.
3.
Wing of a bird.  Synonym: pennon.
verb
(past & past part. pinioned; pres. part. pinioning)
1.
Bind the arms of.  Synonym: shackle.
2.
Cut the wings off (of birds).



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"Pinion" Quotes from Famous Books



... canoe am ober yender, somewhar near dat flatboat," mused Jethro, several minutes after the departure of the scout; "I has a little ob dat 'pinion myself. It wouldn't take more dan five minutes to run across to de oder side. Dat's what he oughter do, but instead ob dat he goes clear round de clearing frough de woods—de most obfoolishest ting dat he could do. He runs de risk ob steppin' on a rattlesnake ...
— The Phantom of the River • Edward S. Ellis
... transform its owner into some tiny creature that could hide and spy in the smallest cranny. Alberic promptly transforms himself into a toad. In an instant Wotan's foot is on him; Loki tears away the helmet; they pinion him, and drag him away a prisoner up through the earth to the ...
— The Perfect Wagnerite - A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring • George Bernard Shaw
... there's the 'pinion a man has of himsen, and there's the 'pinion other folks have on him. There'd be two 'pinions about a cracked bell if the bell ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... machine for lifting heavy objects, acting by the power either of the lever, the tooth and pinion, ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... birds cleverly at the first rise; and although mine got off at first without a shot, by dodging round a birch tree straight in Tim's face, and flew back slap toward the thicket, yet he pitched in its outer skirt, and as he jumped up wild I cut him down with a broken pinion and a shot through his bill at fifty yards, and Chase ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)


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