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pinion1
1. Chiefly poetic a bird's wing
2. the part of a bird's wing including the flight feathers
pinion2
a cogwheel that engages with a larger wheel or rack, which it drives or by which it is driven
pinion [′pin·yən]
(mechanical engineering)
The smaller of a pair of gear wheels or the smallest wheel of a gear train.
(vertebrate zoology)
The distal portion of a bird's wing.
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Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Every one of those knots he has made himself and could loosen himself; not one of them would have been made by an enemy really trying to pinion him.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
From the end of the axis which is next the car, proceeds a shaft of steel, connecting the screw with the pinion of a piece of spring machinery fixed in the car.
The Balloon Hoax by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
 
 
 
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