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The noun pinion has 3 senses

• pinion -- (a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack)


• flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather -- (any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird)


• pennon, pinion -- (wing of a bird)

The verb pinion has 2 senses

• pinion, shackle -- (bind the arms of)


• pinion -- (cut the wings off (of birds))