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Pinioned

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pin·ion 1  (pnyn)
n.
1. The wing of a bird.
2. The outer rear edge of the wing of a bird, containing the primary feathers.
3. A primary feather of a bird.
tr.v. pin·ioned, pin·ion·ing, pin·ions
1.
a. To remove or bind the wing feathers of (a bird) to prevent flight.
b. To cut or bind (the wings of a bird).
2.
a. To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms.
b. To bind (a person's arms).
3. To bind fast or hold down; shackle.

[Middle English, from Old French pignon, from Vulgar Latin *pinni, pinnin-, from Latin penna, pinna, feather; see pinna.]

pin·ion 2  (pnyn)
n.
A small cogwheel that engages or is engaged by a larger cogwheel or a rack.

[French pignon, from Old French peignon, probably from peigne, comb, from Latin pecten, from pectere, to comb.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.pinioned - (of birds) especially having the flight feathers
winged - having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind; "the winged feet of Mercury";
2.pinioned - bound fast especially having the arms restrained
bound - confined by bonds; "bound and gagged hostages"


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But, in order to execute it with more art, and to be secure of success, I told him we must divide the prisoners, and that he should go and take Atkins, and two more of the worst of them, and send them pinioned to the cave where the others lay.
Akut had just time to leap to one side to avoid being pinioned beneath these battling monsters of the jungle.
Say he were pinioned even; knotted all over with ropes and hawsers; chained down to ring-bolts on this cabin floor; he would be more hideous than a caged tiger, then.
 
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