Words Like PINION
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to PINION.
    
    
    
        
            13 Alternative Words Similar to pinion
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        10 definitions of pinion
           
        
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        A moth of the genus Lithophane, as Lithophane antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
    
    
    
 
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        A wing, literal or figurative.
    
    
    
 
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        The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
    
    
    
 
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        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.
    
    
    
 
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        To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
    
    
    
 
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        To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
    
    
    
 
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        To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
    
    
    
 
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        Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.