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Definition:1. {n} a bird wing2. {n} the primary feathers of a bird's wing (see photo), sometimes clipped to prevent a bird from escaping2. {v} to restrain someone by binding their arms behind their back
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So he spread his pinions and made for the first open flower he saw. But a spider happened to be spending the summer in that vegetable, and it was not long before Mr. Butterfly was wishing himself back atop of that pole, a simple caterpillar.
Ambrose Bierce. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
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beyond lay the sea, shimmering and blue, and over it soared the gulls, their pinions flashing silvery in the sunlight.
Lucy Maud Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables (1908)
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I glanced at the plinth, where the tanner’s boy, in spite of encouragement from the regathered crowd, was still firmly pinioned.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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We were boarded about the same time by both the pirates, who entered furiously at the head of their men; but finding us all prostrate upon our faces (for so I gave order), they pinioned us with strong ropes, and setting guard upon us, went to search the sloop.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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“Why I ever wanted to work there I’ll never know,” Miss Trixie said angrily from among the pillows where Mrs. Levy had her pinioned. “Thank goodness poor Gloria got out of there in time.”
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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