Pinion
Definition of Pinion
Pin´ion | n. | 1. | (Zool.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as Lithophane antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples. | | 1. | A feather; a quill. | | 2. | A wing, literal or figurative. | | 3. | The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body. | | 4. | A fetter for the arm. | | 5. | (Mech.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis. | | v. t. | 1. | To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings. | | 2. | To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. | | 3. | To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. | | 4. | Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up. |
Related Words
anchor, appendage, arm, bind, bough, branch, bridle, chain, crest, enchain, entrammel, fasten, feather, fetter, gyve, hackle, hamper, hand, handcuff, hobble, hog-tie, hopple, imp, joint, lash, leash, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, make fast, manacle, member, moor, offshoot, organ, panache, peg down, picket, pin down, plume, plumule, put in irons, quill, ramification, restrain, rope, runner, scapular, scion, secure, shackle, spray, sprig, spur, straitjacket, strap, switch, tail, tendril, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, topknot, trammel, tuft, twig, wing
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