Pinion

['pɪnjən]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack.

(verb.) cut the wings off (of birds).

(verb.) bind the arms of.

手打:玛丽安--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.

(n.) A feather; a quill.

(n.) A wing, literal or figurative.

(n.) The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.

(n.) A fetter for the arm.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.

(v. t.) To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.

(v. t.) To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.

(v. t.) Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.

錄入:米歇尔

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Wing, pennon.[2]. Fetter (for the arms).

v. a. Restrain (by binding the arms), bind, fasten, shackle, fetter, chain.

贝琪校對

解釋/意思:

n. a wing: the joint of a wing most remote from the body of the bird: a small wheel with 'leaves' or teeth working into others.—v.t. to confine the wings of: to cut off the pinion: to confine by binding the arms.

手打:莫尔