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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair. 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. 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. |
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