pinion
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1. pinion - Noun
2. pinion - Verb
3. Pinion - Proper noun
Meaning
A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
A feather; a quill.
A wing, literal or figurative.
The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
A fetter for the arm.
A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis.
To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
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Additionally, geologic mapping of recently exposed bedrock has identified a ~500m by ~300m zone of alteration and structural intersections – the – to the southeast of the current Pinion drill pattern.
Self Destruct", a song about a powerful person, follows a build-up sampled from THX 1138 with an "industrial roar" and is accompanied by an audio loop of a pinion rotating.
Mrs. Burton was preceded in death by her husband, David R. Meggs; son,Franklin Meggs; father, Virgil Pinion; mother, Lena Pinion; brothers, Milford, Damon, Hoyt and Cecil Pinion; and sister, Lorene Howton.
Quills are denominated from the order in which they are fixed in the wing; the first is favoured by the expert calligrapher, the second and third quills being very satisfactory also, plus the pinion feather.
Rack and pinion steering replaced recirculating ball steering gears in model year 1974 and up.
I love every minute of it,” Pinion said.