Pinion(n.)
- A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis.
Pinion(v. t.)
- To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
Pinion(v. t.)
- To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
Pinion(v. t.)
- To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
Pinion(v. t.)
- Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.