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# pinion

«pinion» in Mova's school dictionary: **To hold or tie someone's arms tightly so they cannot move…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (pinion, pinions, pinioned, pinioning); noun (a pinion, pinions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To hold or tie someone's arms tightly so they cannot move them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/#m1)

2) (verb) To cut or tie a bird's wing feathers so it cannot fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/#m2)

3) (noun, poetic) A bird's wing, or the outer part of a wing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/#m3)

4) (noun, machines) A small gear wheel with teeth that fits into a larger wheel or a toothed bar (rack and pinion). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Stories: a prisoner is pinioned by guards. In The Wind in the Willows the policemen seize Toad and drag him off to prison. Science and design: a «rack and pinion» turns round movement into straight movement, as in a car's steering. Poetry: «on eagle's pinions».

### examples

- The guards pinioned the thief's arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/#x1)
- Toad was seized and pinioned by two policemen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/#x2)
- The eagle spread its pinions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/#x3)
- A rack and pinion moves the train up the mountain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/#x4)
- The swans' wings were pinioned so they could not fly away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/#x5)
- He was pinioned to the ground by the bigger boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/#x6)
- They are curious birds; they give one flap with their wings, and then on their outstretched pinions soar far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Not the same as «opinion». A pinion in a machine is the smaller of two gears.

### In the corpora

- [The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1071/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pinion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.