Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having wings or pinions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pinion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of birds) especially having the flight feathers
- adjective bound fast especially having the arms restrained
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Examples
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A story that was insufficient for whatever reason would be smashed atop the spike, the paper perforated and pinioned like a butterfly or the head of a traitor.
No more 'spiking' and 'killing' in our kinder, gentler newsroom John Kelly 2010
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A story that was insufficient for whatever reason would be smashed atop the spike, the paper perforated and pinioned like a butterfly or the head of a traitor.
No more 'spiking' and 'killing': A kinder, gentler computer system John Kelly 2010
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Based on the autobiographical book by Aron Ralston, the film recounts how the canyoneer was forced to cut off his arm after it got pinioned by a boulder.
Erica Abeel: WHEN CUTTING OFF YOUR ARM IS THE SOLUTION Erica Abeel 2010
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“To those red-blooded Americans who signed up to fight somebody and arrived in Ceylon to find themselves pinioned beneath P Division directives, the SEAC situation was just another form of British tyranny—frustration without representation,” she wrote.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Based on the autobiographical book by Aron Ralston, the film recounts how the canyoneer was forced to cut off his arm after it got pinioned by a boulder.
Erica Abeel: WHEN CUTTING OFF YOUR ARM IS THE SOLUTION Erica Abeel 2010
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Based on the autobiographical book by Aron Ralston, the film recounts how the canyoneer was forced to cut off his arm after it got pinioned by a boulder.
Erica Abeel: WHEN CUTTING OFF YOUR ARM IS THE SOLUTION Erica Abeel 2010
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Based on the autobiographical book by Aron Ralston, the film recounts how the canyoneer was forced to cut off his arm after it got pinioned by a boulder.
Erica Abeel: WHEN CUTTING OFF YOUR ARM IS THE SOLUTION Erica Abeel 2010
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But Kane moved not as they took his blade and pinioned his iron hands.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Based on the autobiographical book by Aron Ralston, the film recounts how the canyoneer was forced to cut off his arm after it got pinioned by a boulder.
Erica Abeel: When Cutting Off Your Arm Is the Solution Erica Abeel 2010
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Based on the autobiographical book by Aron Ralston, the film recounts how the canyoneer was forced to cut off his arm after it got pinioned by a boulder.
Erica Abeel: WHEN CUTTING OFF YOUR ARM IS THE SOLUTION Erica Abeel 2010
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