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What does pinion mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pinion? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A wing.
  2. (ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
  3. (ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
  4. A moth of the genus Lithophane.
  5. (obsolete) A fetter for the arm.
Verb
  1. (with the bird or the wing as the object) To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
  2. (with the person or the arms as the object) To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding; to shackle.
    1. in transferred senses or in figurative use
    2. To bind fast to something, or together.
Noun
  1. The smallest gear in a gear drive train.
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