French Meaning of pinion
pignon
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Definitions and Meaning of pinion in English
pinion (n)
a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
wing of a bird
pinion (v)
bind the arms of
cut the wings off (of birds)
pinion (n.)
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.
pinion (v. t.)
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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pignon
a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack, any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird, wing of a bird, bind the ar
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piningly => avec désir, pining => désir, pinicola enucleator => Durbec des sapins, pinicola => Durbec des sapins, pinic => pique-nique,
