Definitions for pinions

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pinions pin·ion

Spelling: [pin-yuh n]

IPA: /ˈpɪn yən/

Pinions is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in pinions (iinnops).

Definitions for pinions

noun

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.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut off the pinion of (a wing) or bind (the wings), as in order to prevent a bird from flying.
2. to disable or restrain (a bird) in such a manner.
3. to bind (a person's arms or hands) so they cannot be used.
4. to disable (someone) in such a manner; shackle.
5. to bind or hold fast, as to a thing:

Origin of pinions

1650-60; French pignon cogwheel, Middle French peignon, derivative of peigne comb, variant of pigne Latin pectin- (stem of pecten) comb; see pecten

Examples for pinions

The father throws the pinion into the fire, and the eagle appears.

You can calculate from that the marvellous strength of pinion.

In the latter case, the small one is the pinion, and the larger one the spur wheel.

Partridges, &c.: take up by the pinion, and mince them small in the sirrup.

It is only a short essay, just to try the strength of my Muse's pinion in that way.

We must now find a suitable number of teeth for this wheel and pinion.

I said I hadn't no 'pinion o' menAn' I wouldn't take stock in him!

Now a spur gear, as well as a pinion, has three diameters; one measurep.

Capital egg-drills are to be made from "pinion wire" used by watchmakers.

Take your kerchief, Kenneth, and pinion his wrists behind him.