📖 Definitions of "Pinions"
noun
- 1
A wing.
- 2
The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
- 3
Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
- 4
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.
- 2
To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
- 3
(transferred sense) To restrain; to limit.
noun
- 1
The smallest gear in a gear train.
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