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Pinion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. pin'yon.

2. The joint of a fowl's wing, remotest from the body.

3. A fether; a quill.

4. A wing.

5. Hope humbly then, on trembling pinions soar.

6. The tooth of a smaller wheel, answering to that of a larger.

7. Fetters or bands for the arms.

Pinion [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. pin'yon. To bind or confine the wings.

2. To confine by binding the wings.

3. To cut off the first joint of the wing.

4. To bind or confine the arm or arms to the body.

5. To confine; to shackle; to chain; as, to be pinioned by formal rules of state.

6. To bind; to fasten to.

Pinion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.

2. A feather; a quill.

3. A wing, literal or figurative.

4. The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.

5. A fetter for the arm.

6. 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.

Pinion [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Pinioned [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Furnished with wings.

Pinioned [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Confined by the wings; shackled.

Pinioned [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having wings or pinions.

Pinioned [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pinion

Pinioning [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pinion

Pinionist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A winged animal; a fowl. [Not used.]

Pinionist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any winged creature.