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Definition of pinion : 1. 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.
2. A feather; a quill.
3. A fetter for the arm.
4. A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
5. A wing, literal or figurative.
6. Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
7. The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
8. To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
9. To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
10. To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.

Synonyms:

pin feather, wing, calamus, pennant, waft, fetter, feather, streamer, quill pen, pennon, shaft, quill, quill feather, flight feather

prison (part of speech: noun)

handcuff, coop, collar, reform school, cooler, jailhouse, cage, jail, pen, penitentiary, oubliette, reformatory, harness, tether, irons, jug, brig, bridle, dungeon, pound, prison, fence, penal colony, stronghold, keep, vise, San Quentin, shackle, stockade, confine, lockup, straight jacket, pillory, manacle, Bastille, cell, gaol, Alcatraz

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