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Definition of Pinioned
1. Adjective. (of birds) especially having the flight feathers.
2. Adjective. Bound fast especially having the arms restrained.
Definition of Pinioned
1. a. Having wings or pinions.
Definition of Pinioned
1. Verb. (past of pinion#English pinion) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinioned
1. pinion [v] - See also: pinion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinioned
Literary usage of Pinioned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... Bird of the sun, transparent-winged Owlet of noon, soft-pinioned, From heath
or stubble rising without song; Establish thy serenity o'er the fields. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"... two other groups of maidens, in one of which Cupid is being captured and in
the other led away with his arms pinioned. — Nat. Gal Cat. ; Richter, 49. ..."
3. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"Bareheaded and with his hands pinioned behind him, he could scarcely drag himself
along. Some pelted him with mud, others kicked and struck him with sticks. ..."
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