| NOUN | artifact | pinion | a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh / mesh with a larger / larger wheel or rack |
|---|---|---|---|
| animal | pinion, flight feather, quill, quill feather | any of the larger / larger wing or tail feathers of a bird | |
| animal | pinion, pennon | wing of a bird | |
| VERB | contact | pinion, shackle | bind the arms of |
| change | pinion | cut the wings off (of birds) |
| Sounds | pih'nyahn | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | A gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh / mesh with a larger / larger wheel or rack. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | lantern pinion, lantern wheel | A small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks |
| Broader | gear, gear wheel, geared wheel, cogwheel | A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion |
| Spanish | piñón | |
| Catalan | pinyó | |
| Meaning | Any of the larger / larger wing or tail feathers of a bird. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | flight feather, quill, quill feather | |
| Part of | wing | A movable organ for flying (one of a pair) |
| Narrower | primary, primary feather, primary quill | One of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing |
| tail feather | feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird | |
| Broader | feather, plume, plumage | The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds |
| Spanish | remera | |
| Catalan | rèmige | |
| Verbs | pinion | cut the wings off (of birds) |
| Meaning | wing of a bird. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | pennon | |
| Part of | bird | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
| Broader | wing | A movable organ for flying (one of a pair) |
| Verbs | pinion | cut the wings off (of birds) |
| Meaning | Bind the arms of. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | They want to pinion the prisoners | |
| Synonym | shackle | |
| Broader | restrain, confine, hold, constrain | To close within bounds, limit or hold back / back from movement |
| Spanish | maniatar | |
| Meaning | cut the wings off (of birds) . | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Broader | disable, disenable, incapacitate | make unable to perform a certain action |
| Spanish | cortar las alas | |
| Nouns | pinion | wing of a bird |
| pinion | any of the larger / larger wing or tail feathers of a bird | |
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