Pinion

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A wing.

   “Therefore do nimble Pinion'd Doues draw Loue, And therefore hath the wind-ſwift Cupid wings:”

2. isim The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
3. isim Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.

   “An argument that he is pluckt, when hither / He ſends ſo poore a Pinnion of his Wing,”

4. isim A moth of the genus Lithophane.
5. fiil To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.

   “They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them.”

6. fiil To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.

   “Pinioning its extremities with the edge of the towel, she crushed off its offensive and defensive weapons with a splinter from the wall. The blowfly was her next victim, but an unexciting one.”

7. fiil To restrain; to limit.

   “Know, sir that I / Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court, / Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia.”

8. isim The smallest gear in a gear train.

   “1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.”

9. özel isim A surname.