pinion

1. 1.

   bind the arms of

   Synonymsshackle

   Broaderrestrain
2. 2.

   cut the wings off (of birds)

   Broaderdisable

Other forms of pinion

plural

pinions·

past tense

pinioned·

present participle

pinioning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pinion

What does pinion mean?

pinion means "a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pinion?

pinion has 2 syllables: pin-ion. The stress falls on "pin". In IPA it is /ˈpɪnjən/.

What is another word for pinion?

Close synonyms include flight feather, quill, quill feather, pennon, shackle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pinion a common word?

pinion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pinion?

1 word rhymes with pinion. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.