Definitions for pinion

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pinion pin·ion

Spelling: [pin-yuh n]

IPA: /ˈpɪn yən/

Pinion is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in pinion (iinnop).

Definitions for pinion

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 pinion

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 pinion

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

You can calculate from that the marvellous strength of pinion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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