pinion

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wing.
    — Therefore do nimble Pinion'd Doues draw Loue, And therefore hath the wind-ſwift Cupid wings:
  2. The smallest gear in a gear train. transitive
    — 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.
  3. The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
  4. Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
    — An argument that he is pluckt, when hither / He ſends ſo poore a Pinnion of his Wing,
  5. A moth of the genus Lithophane.
动词 v.
  1. To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying. transitive
    — They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them.
  2. To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding. transitive
    — “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”
  3. To restrain; to limit. figuratively,transitive
    — Know, sir that I / Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court, / Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia.

词形变化

pinions plural pinions present,singular,third-person pinioning participle,present pinioned participle,past pinioned past pinions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
pinioned pinioner pinioning
相关词
Lemmer's pinion nameless pinion pale pinion tawny pinion

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pynyon, from Old French pignon, from Latin penna (“feather”).
词源 2
Borrowed from French pignon.
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