Meaning of Pinion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A wing.
3. The smallest gear in a gear train.
   transitive
4. The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
5. Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
6. A moth of the genus Lithophane.

Equivalents

Examples

“Therefore do nimble Pinion'd Doues draw Loue, And therefore hath the wind-ſwift Cupid wings:”

“See o'er the Alps his tow'ring Pinions ſoar, Where never Engliſh Poet reach'd before.”

“Press on! for it is godlike to unloose The spirit, and forget yourself in thought; Bending a pinion for the deeper sky, And, in the very fetters of your flesh, Mating with the pure essences of heaven!”

“Never seraph spread a pinion / Over fabric half so fair.”

“An argument that he is pluckt, when hither / He ſends ſo poore a Pinnion of his Wing,”

“1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.”

“The usual front sprocket has teeth, which which mesh into a pinion on a shaft that carries power to the wheel through a pair of pinions at the rear.”

“The spiral bevel pinion has 19 teeth, a diametral pitch of 6.940 teeth/inch, a face width of 1.28 inch, a bevel angle of 15 degrees 16 minutes, and a spiral angle of 30 degrees left hand, clockwise.”

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