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Noun pinion has 3 senses

pinion - a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
--₁ is a kind of gear, gear wheel, cogwheel
--₁ has particulars: lantern pinion, lantern wheel
flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather - any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
--₂ is a kind of feather, plume, plumage
--₂ is a part of wing
--₂ has particulars: primary, primary feather, primary quill; tail feather
Derived form: verb pinion₂
pennon, pinion - wing of a bird
--₃ is a kind of wing
--₃ is a part of bird
Derived form: verb pinion₂

Verb pinion has 2 senses

pinion, shackle - bind the arms of
--₁ is one way to restrain, confine, hold
Sample sentence:
They want to pinion the prisoners
pinion - cut the wings off (of birds)
--₂ is one way to disable, disenable, incapacitate

Derived forms: noun pinion₃, noun pinion₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something