Definition of Pinioned

1. Adjective. (of birds) especially having the flight feathers.

Similar to: Winged

2. Adjective. Bound fast especially having the arms restrained.
Similar to: Bound

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

pinhole
pinhole camera
pinholes
pinic
pinic acid
pinier
pinies
piniest
piniform
pinin
pining
piningly
pinion and crown wheel
pinion and ring gear
pinioned (current term)
pinioning
pinionist
pinionists
pinions
pinite
pinites
pinitol
pinitols
pink-and-white everlasting
pink-collar
pink-eye
pink-eyes
pink-slipped

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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