pinioned : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pinioned	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for pinioned
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pinioned adj (of birds) especially having the flight feathers bound fast especially having the arms restrained
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pinioned \Pin"ioned\, a. Having wings or pinions.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pinion \Pin"ion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pinioned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pinioning}.] 1. To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings. --Bacon. 2. To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. --Johnson. 3. To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. --Shak. Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips. --Cowper. 4. Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up. [bd]Pinioned up by formal rules of state.[b8] --Norris.