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n. சிறுகுநுனி, (செய்.) சிறகு, பறக்கும் ஆற்றல் உள்ள சிறகின் பகுதி, விசைகொள் இறகு, செதுக்கு வேலையில் முன்கையுறுப்பொத்த இறக்கைப்பகுதி, (வினை.) சிறகொடி, பறவையின் இறக்கையை வெட்டிப்பறக்கமுடியாமற் செய், இயங்க முடியாமற் கட்டு, கைகளைக் கட்டு, அசையாமல் இறுகப் பிணைத்துக்கட்டு.
Pin"ion, n. (Zoöl.) Defn: A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples. Pin"ion, n. Etym: [OF. pignon a pen, F., gable, pinion (in sense 5); cf. Sp. piñon pinion; fr. L. pinna pinnacle, feather, wing. See Pin a peg, and cf. Pen a feather, Pennat, Pennon.] 1. A feather; a quill. Shak. 2. A wing, literal or figurative. Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome. Pope. 3. The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body. Johnson. 4. A fetter for the arm. Ainsworth. 5. (Mech.) Defn: 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. Lantern pinion. See under Lantern. -- Pinion wire, wire fluted longitudinally, for making the pinions of clocks and watches. It is formed by being drawn through holes of the shape required for the leaves or teeth of the pinions. Pin"ion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Pinioning.] 1. To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings. Bacon. 2. To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. Johnson. 3. To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. Shak. Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips. Cowper. 4. Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up. "Pinioned up by formal rules of state." Norris.