pinions in English

noun

1

the outer part of a bird's wing including the flight feathers.

Buglike, and reminding me of dragonfly wings were two long pinions , and just under them were two more.

2

a small gear or spindle engaging with a large gear.

It is used for railroad frogs, for steel mill coupling housings, pinions , spindles, and for dipper lips of power shovels operating in quarries.

verb

1

tie or hold the arms or legs of (someone).

he pinioned the limbs of his opponents

2

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

Swans are caught and their wings' flight feathers are clipped, or pinioned .

noun

• quill, flight feather
• pennon

verb

• hold down, pin down, restrain, hold fast, immobilize, tie, bind, truss (up), shackle, fetter, hobble, manacle, handcuff, cuff
• shackle

Use "pinions" in a sentence

1. Broadly, a bird’s “pinions” are its wings.

2. How does Jehovah protect us “with his pinions”?

3. The old pinions used to hurt the old fellows so.

4. 7 “‘“And there came another great eagle,+ with great wings and large pinions.

5. Light- winged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,

6. Her chicks run to her, and in seconds they are safely concealed beneath her pinions.

7. An opening (130) through one of the pinions accommodates the drive member to allow for a compact apparatus.

8. Does anybody make pinions which I can use to put into the transfer box to replace the existing ones?

9. 68:13 —How were “the wings of a dove covered with silver and its pinions with yellowish-green gold”?

10. If it seems that the fledgling might hit the ground, the mother swoops down under it, carrying it ‘on her pinions.’

11. Focus is adjusted by turning the knob on the right, which turns a worm gear that is connected to a shaft with pinions.

12. Bags for motorcycles and mopeds, fairings, windscreens, screens, frames, hoods, shock absorbers, chains and chain pinions, brake pads, mudguards, chain covers, radiator covers and tyres for motorcycles and mopeds

13. Just as an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its fledglings, spreads out its wings, takes them, carries them on its pinions, Jehovah alone kept leading him.”

14. The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

15. We read: “Just as an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its fledglings, spreads out its wings, takes them, carries them on its pinions, Jehovah alone kept leading [Jacob].”

16. An intricate system of gears, stainless steel pinions, and rubber and metal belts appeared ready to Circumvolve.: The walls of the valley Circumvolve like a repetitive melody, the visual equivalent of Ravel's Bolero or Pachebel's Canon.: The last are best, consisting of many scales which like onions Circumvolve one another and in which nature has expressed far more curiosity then art's best