pinion
A wing.
(ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
(ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
A moth of the genus Lithophane.
To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.
Both my arms are pinioned from behind by the Director of Comp., who wrestles me roughly down, on me with all his weight. I taste floor.
(figurative) To restrain; to limit.
(mechanical engineering) The smallest gear in a gear train.
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