Pinion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PINION in dictionary:

VERB:
• to remove the wing feathers to prevent flight
• restrain or immobilize (someone) by tying up or holding their arms or legs
• tie up or hold (the arms or legs) of a person
• cut off the pinion of (a wing or bird) to prevent flight.
• 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.
• bind the arms of
• cut the wings off (of birds)
• immobilize (someone) by tying or holding his or her arms
NOUN:
• a small cogwheel or spindle engaging with a large cogwheel.
• 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.
• 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
• the outer part of a bird's wing including the flight feathers.
• a bird's wing as used in flight.
• bird's wing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to remove or bind the wing feathers of to prevent flight
• bird\'s wing

Words related to PINION

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Words that contain PINION

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How to use PINION in a sentence

• Not till he had worn himself out could they pinion him.
• This valve was moved by a pin in a pinion, making two revolutions for every revolution of the engine, and the configuration of the seat determined the amount of the expansion.
• Tom should enact the part of driver, while Jim, being the stronger man of the two, should seize and pinion her ladyship in his grasp.
• The wind with gently-wafting pinion Gave forth a rustling strange and whist.
• Uncertainty around my anxious head Her dusky, thousand-folded pinion waves.
• As the eagle, on wild pinion, Is the king in realms of air, So the hunter claims dominion Over crag and forest lair.
• The apparatus is furnished with a standard with rack and pinion, and the base furnished with leveling screws.
• Valentin to ask him how he had been able to take, and pinion it in this manner.
• In the middle of the space on the ground level, a great upright hub bore an iron-cogged pinion and was pierced by a long horizontal beam some three feet from the ground.
• The great bird half folded its wings and swooped, the air making a hissing hum in its rigid pinion tips.
• When the float moves its position, the wheel, R, begins to turn and carries along in doing so the pinion, w, which revolves over the toothed wheels, s1, s2, and s3.
• The thickness of w is equal to that of the three wheels, s1, s2, and s3, and a special spring secures at every instant an intimate contact between the pinion and the said wheels.
• As a result of this, in the motion of the pinion, w, the latter is never in contact with but one of the three wheels, s1, s2, and s3.
• The motion of r is transmitted, by means of the pinion, d, and the wheel, e, to the wheel, T.
• I healed its wound, and each morning It sang its old sweet strain, But the bird with a broken pinion Never soared as high again.
• Verse cannot keep upon the wing without a certain measure in the movement of the pinion.
• When he is thoroughly penetrated with his subject, Tintoretto soars perhaps on a stronger pinion and higher above the earth than the elder master.
• She always parted with me, on my going to school, as if she had lost a limb, and when I returned, received me as if she had found a pinion in its place.
• Every bird you hear sing, even though it stop but an hour to rest its tired pinion on its northern migration, has an invisible label pinned under its coat.
• I just strode across the cave and grasped her by the wrists, and when she struggled, I put my arm around her so as to pinion her hands to her sides.
• The pinion shafts are driven through a wire rope transmission from an engine located 500 feet distant.
• The crank shaft carries a large spur gear which meshes with a pinion in the end of the armature shaft, so that the user may cause the armature to revolve rapidly.

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