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Synonyms for pinion

  • noun
  • verb

Most common

flight feather quill quill feather

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Quill

quill, quill feather, feather, flight feather

Other

wing, arm, pennon formal dated

Verb

shackle, chain, fasten, fetter, restrain, bind, manacle

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A wing.

  2. v. 1

    To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.

    Suppoſe, thou Fortune could to tameneſs bring, / And clip or pinion her wing; / Suppoſe thou could’ſt on Fate ſo far prevail / As not to cut off thy Entail.

Forms

Plural
pinions → quills, feathers, wings, arms…
Past participle
pinioned
e.g. pinioned → shackled, chained, fastened, fettered…

Example sentences

  • quill My quill ran out of ink this morning.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
pinionfalling
quillrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
arm1
4 letters
wing1, bind1
5 letters
chain1, quill1
6 letters
fasten2, fetter2, pennon
7 letters
feather2, shackle2, manacle
8 letters
restrain2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fasten2 = 2 syllables).