pinioned
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yən noun
1.
the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
2.
the wing of a bird.
3.
a feather.
4.
the flight feathers collectively.
verb (used with object)
5.
to cut off the pinion of (a wing) or bind (the wings), as in order to prevent a bird from flying.
6.
to disable or restrain (a bird) in such a manner.
7.
to bind (a person's arms or hands) so they cannot be used.
8.
to disable (someone) in such a manner; shackle.
9.
to bind or hold fast, as to a thing: to be pinioned to one's bad habits.
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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English pynyon < Middle French pignon wing, pinion < Vulgar Latin *pinniōn (stem of pinniō), derivative of Latin pinna feather, wing, fin
1400–50; late Middle English pynyon < Middle French pignon wing, pinion < Vulgar Latin *pinniōn (stem of pinniō), derivative of Latin pinna feather, wing, fin
Related forms
un·pin·ioned, adjective
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pinion1 (ˈpɪnjən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | poetic chiefly a bird's wing |
| 2. | the part of a bird's wing including the flight feathers |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to hold or bind (the arms) of (a person) so as to restrain or immobilize him |
| 4. | to confine or shackle |
| 5. | to make (a bird) incapable of flight by removing that part of (the wing) from which the flight feathers grow |
| [C15: from Old French pignon wing, from Latin pinna wing] | |
| pinion2 (ˈpɪnjən) | |
| —n | |
| a cogwheel that engages with a larger wheel or rack, which it drives or by which it is driven | |
| [C17: from French pignon cogwheel, from Old French peigne comb, from Latin pecten comb; see | |
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Word Origin & History
pinion
"wing joint," c.1440, from M.Fr. pignon (c.1400), from V.L. *pinnionem, from L. penna "wing" (see pen (1)). Verb meaning "disable by binding the arms" is from 1558, older than lit. sense "cut the pinions of a wing to prevent a bird from flying" (1577).
pinion
"small gear with teeth" (as in rack and pinion), 1659, from Fr. pignon, from O.Fr. pignon "crenellation, battlement," aug. of L. pinna "battlement, pinnacle;" confused with (but perhaps ult. a variant of) penna "wing, feather, peak" (see pen (1)).
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Example sentences
They may be possessed and sold, but all males must be neutered and all individuals must be surgically pinioned.
Prey is seized with great speed, pinioned under loops of the body, and engulfed without constriction.
One hand was pinioned inextricably under a heavy folding bed.
There are exceptions from pen standards for animals kept on a persons' own land if they have been pinioned and neutered.
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