Pinion

ENGLISH MEANING

noun

1.: The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
2.: A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
3.: A wing, literal or figurative.
4.: A fetter for the arm.
5.: 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.

verb

1.: (TRANSITIVE) To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
2.: (TRANSITIVE) To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
3.: (TRANSITIVE) To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
4.: (TRANSITIVE) Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.

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