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Meaning of PINION in English

A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.

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    Meaning of PINION in English

    • A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
    • A feather; a quill.
    • A wing, literal or figurative.
    • The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
    • A fetter for the arm.
    • 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.
    • To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
    • To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
    • To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
    • Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.

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