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pinion(1) (iou)



pinion noun1. ME.
[Old & mod. French pignon wing-feather, wing, pinnacle, battlement, (now only) gable from Proto-Romance augm. of Latin pinna PIN noun1. Cf. PENNON.]
A battlement, a pinnacle; a gable. Long dial. obsolete exc. in pinion-end, a gable-end. ME.
The terminal segment of a (bird's) wing usu. including the flight feathers; (chiefly poet. & rhet.) a bird's wing as used in flight. LME.
fig.: E. Darwin When light clouds on airy pinions sail.
b. Orig., the whole wing of a cooked or dressed fowl. Now spec. the terminal segment of the wing. M17.
Any of the primary flight feathers of a bird's wing, esp. the outermost one. M16.
A winglike adornment or style of cut of the shoulder or sleeve of a garment, fashionable in the 16th and 17th cents. L16-M17.
The anterior border of an insect's wing. Usu. in comb. in collectors' names of moths. E18.
pinioned adjective (a) having a pinion or pinions; winged; (b) (of a bird) subjected to pinioning: LME.