Crossword-Solution: PINION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pinion | n. | A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples. |
| Pinion | n. | A feather; a quill. |
| Pinion | n. | A wing, literal or figurative. |
| Pinion | n. | The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body. |
| Pinion | n. | A fetter for the arm. |
| Pinion | 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. |
| Pinion | v. t. | To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings. |
| Pinion | v. t. | To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. |
| Pinion | v. t. | To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. |
| Pinion | v. t. | Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “PINION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BIND wings of bird | 1 answer |
| cut the wings off | 1 answer |
| Smaller gear wheel | 1 answer |
| Small gear | 1 answer |
| Rack-matching gear | 1 answer |
| Rack-and- -- steering | 1 answer |
| Rack-and- -- | 1 answer |
| Rack and ___ steering | 1 answer |
| Hold someone around the arms to restrain him | 1 answer |
| Hold down, as a person's arms | 1 answer |
| Gear with a small number of teeth | 1 answer |
| Drivetrain gear | 1 answer |
| Dove's wing | 1 answer |
| COGGED spindle | 1 answer |
| "It's only a matter of a ___!" (punchline which falsely asserts that crows have one fewer feather per wing than ravens) | 1 answer |
| outer part of a birds wing | 2 answers |
| Toothed gear | 2 answers |
| Gearwheel | 2 answers |
| Bird wing | 2 answers |
| Rack partner | 2 answers |
| Rack's mate | 2 answers |
| Rack's partner | 2 answers |
| Bird's wing | 2 answers |
| wing feather | 4 answers |
| Stylus. | 6 answers |
| Hold down | 8 answers |
| Quill | 13 answers |
| Plume. | 15 answers |
| Shackle | 24 answers |
| Feather ___. | 31 answers |
| Tooth | 43 answers |
| Gear | 62 answers |
| Wing | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PINION (5)
Every one of those knots he has made himself and could loosen himself; not one of them would have been made by an enemy really trying to pinion him.
Looking yet more closely, I saw that they were of the shape of folded wings, and were made of all kinds of butterfly-wings and moth-wings, crowded together like the feathers on the individual butterfly pinion; but, like them, most beautifully arranged, and producing a perfect harmony of colour and shade.
And in the fourth cut, to be sure, he has leaped bodily upon his victim, sped by foot and pinion, and roaring as he leaps.
But it's my 'pinion you'll just damage the ship, an' do nothin'.' Howsomdever, I talked to the bat'ry man about it, an' he thought it could be done, an' not hurt the ship, nuther.
This is unborn beauty: she Now in air floats high and free, Takes the sun and breaks the blue;— Late with stooping pinion flew Raking hedgerow trees, and wet Her wing in silver streams, and set Shining foot on temple roof: Now again she flies aloof, Coasting mountain clouds and kiss’t By the evening’s amethyst.
Quotes with PINION (2)
Don't let public opinions pinion you
Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example, ought to hear lectures from individualists and socialists, protectionists and free-traders, inflationists and believers in the gold standard. He ought to be encouraged to read the best books of the various schools, as recommended by those who believe in them. This would teach him to weigh arguments and evidence, to know that no pinion i…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1973–2024).