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▸ noun: (ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
▸ noun: (ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
▸ noun: A moth of the genus Lithophane.
▸ verb: To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
▸ verb: To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
▸ verb: (transferred sense, figurative) To restrain; to limit.
▸ noun: (mechanical engineering) The smallest gear in a gear train.
▸ noun: A surname.
Similar:
flight feather,
quill feather,
quill,
pennon,
shackle,
pinionists,
winglet,
pigeonwing,
wingpit,
sarcel,
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