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pinioned |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pinion \Pin"ion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pinioned}; p. pr & vb n. {Pinioning}.] 1. To bind or confine the wings of to confine by binding the wings. --Bacon. 2. To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. --Johnson. 3. To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. --Shak. Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips. --Cowper. 4. Hence generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up ``Pinioned up by formal rules of state.'' --Norris. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pinioned \Pin"ioned\, a. Having wings or pinions. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pinioned adj 1: (of birds) especially having the flight feathers 2: bound fast especially having the arms restrained
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