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Verb
/ˈpinyən/,
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pinions, plural;
  1. Tie or hold the arms or legs of (someone)
    • - he pinioned the limbs of his opponents
  2. Bind (the arms or legs) of someone

  3. Cut off the pinion of (a wing or bird) to prevent flight

Noun
  1. A small gear or spindle engaging with a large gear

  1. a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
  2. bind the arms of
  3. flight feather: any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
  4. cut the wings off (of birds)
  5. pennon: wing of a bird
  6. A pinion is a round gear used in several applications: *usually the smallest gear in a gear drive train, although in the case of John Blenkinsop's The Salamanca, the pinion was rather large. In many cases, such as remote controlled toys, the pinion is also the drive gear.
  7. Flight feathers are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired feathers on the wings or tail of a bird; those on the wings are called remiges (singular remex) while those on the tail are called rectrices (singular rectrix). ...
  8. Broken is an extended play (EP) by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on September 22, 1992. The EP was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and Flood. ...
  9. A wing; The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body; The outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing; To remove the joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body to prevent the bird from flying; To restrain by binding or holding the arms
  10. Combines with a wheel and an arbor to form a gear. A pinion has less teeth than a wheel and transmits motive force to a wheel. Pinion teeth are highly polished to reduce friction to a minimum.
  11. Toothed wheel usually made of steel with a small number of teeth.
  12. To remove or bind the wing feathers of a birdAn animal that has wings and is covered with feathers. Birds have a backbone, are warm-blooded, produce young from eggs, and walk on their two legs. Most can fly. to prevent flight.
  13. A wheel with machine-cut teeth specially designed to engage with those of similarly toothed wheels or racks, used to transmit relative motion.
  14. the small driving gear on the power train of a movable bridge
  15. The small gear that fits on your armature shaft.
  16. The smaller of a pair of high-ratio bevel gear wheels.
  17. the smaller of two mating or meshing gears; can be either the driving or the driven gear.
  18. Part of the train with leaves or teeth driven by the wheels of the train.
  19. A small toothed wheel driven by a gear. In clock gear trains a pinion is usually the smaller driven member, and normally has less than 20 teeth, which are termed 'leaves'. The hypocycloidal form is mostly used for pinion leaves. ...
  20. The small gear on the motor.
  21. A type of gear that has small teeth that mesh with other, larger gears.