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Definitions for Pinions

[1] Machinery . a gear with a small number of teeth, especially one engaging with a rack or larger gear. a shaft or spindle cut with teeth engaging with a gear.
[2] Metalworking . a gear driving a roll in a rolling mill.
[3] the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
[4] the wing of a bird.
[5] a feather.
[6] the flight feathers collectively.
[7] to cut off the pinion of (a wing) or bind (the wings), as in order to prevent a bird from flying.
[8] to disable or restrain (a bird) in such a manner.
[9] to bind (a person's arms or hands) so they cannot be used.
[10] to disable (someone) in such a manner; shackle.
[11] to bind or hold fast, as to a thing: to be pinioned to one's bad habits.
[12] mainly poetic a bird's wing
[13] the part of a bird's wing including the flight feathers
[14] to hold or bind (the arms) of (a person) so as to restrain or immobilize him
[15] to confine or shackle
[16] to make (a bird) incapable of flight by removing that part of (the wing) from which the flight feathers grow
[17] a cogwheel that engages with a larger wheel or rack, which it drives or by which it is driven

Words related to Pinions

pinionwheel, leg, extremity, stem, arm, branch, wing, embargo, restriction, constraint, prohibition, reduction, limit, ban, curb, prong, plume, fringe, fasten, fix

Words nearby Pinions

pinionpinheaded, pinhole, pinhole camera, pinhole pupil, piniform, pinion, pinite, pinitol, piniós, pink, pink bollworm

Origin of Pinions

21400–50; late Middle English pynyon < Middle French pignon wing, pinion < Vulgar Latin *pinniōn (stem of pinniō ), derivative of Latin pinna feather, wing, fin

Other words from Pinions

pin·ion·less , adjective
pin·ion·like , adjective
un·pin·ioned , adjective

Word origin for Pinions

C17: from French pignon cogwheel, from Old French peigne comb, from Latin pecten comb; see pecten

Synonyms for Pinions

arm, branch, extremity, leg, stem, wheel, wing, bough, extension, fin, gam, lobe, member, offshoot, part, pin, process, projection, spray, sprig, spur, switch, unit