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 →

2) (verb) To cut or tie a bird's wing feathers so it cannot fly. tree →

3) (noun, poetic) A bird's wing, or the outer part of a wing. tree →

4) (noun, machines) A small gear wheel with teeth that fits into a larger wheel or a toothed bar (rack and pinion). tree →

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 →
• Toad was seized and pinioned by two policemen. tree →
• The eagle spread its pinions. tree →
• A rack and pinion moves the train up the mountain. tree →
• The swans' wings were pinioned so they could not fly away. tree →
• He was pinioned to the ground by the bigger boy. tree →
• They are curious birds; they give one flap with their wings, and then on their outstretched pinions soar far away. tree →

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?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pinion» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.