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.
Definitions
- noun. A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
- noun. A feather; a quill.
- noun. A wing, literal or figurative.
- noun. The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
- noun. A fetter for the arm.
- noun. 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.
- transitive verb. To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
- transitive verb. To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
- transitive verb. To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
- transitive verb. Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
- noun. wing of a bird
- noun. any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- noun. a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
- verb. cut the wings off (of birds)
- verb. bind the arms of
Synonyms
Common word forms
pinions, pinioned, pinioning, pinionless
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