Dictionary Entry
pinion
pinion is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
- 2noun
A feather; a quill.
- 3noun
A wing, literal or figurative.
- 4noun
The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
- 5noun
A fetter for the arm.
- 6noun
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.
- 7transitive verb
To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
- 8transitive verb
To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
- 9transitive verb
To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
- 10transitive verb
Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
- 11noun
wing of a bird
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- 12noun
any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
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- 13noun
a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
- 14verb
cut the wings off (of birds)
- 15verb
bind the arms of
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