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PINIONED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pinioned mean?
• PINIONED (adjective)
The adjective PINIONED has 2 senses:
1. (of birds) especially having the flight feathers
2. bound fast especially having the arms restrained
Familiarity information: PINIONED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of birds) especially having the flight feathers
Similar:
winged (having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Bound fast especially having the arms restrained
Similar:
bound (confined by bonds)
Context examples
At last he mastered her arms; Grace Poole gave him a cord, and he pinioned them behind her: with more rope, which was at hand, he bound her to a chair.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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