VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / pinions

Thesaurus: pinions

n a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack n any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird n wing of a bird v bind the arms of v cut the wings off (of birds)

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

birddefinitionlargerdefinitionwingdefinitionarmsdefinitionbinddefinitionbirdsdefinitioncutdefinitiondesigneddefinitionfeathersdefinitiongeardefinitionmeshdefinitionnumberdefinitionrackdefinitionsmalldefinitiontaildefinitionteethdefinitionwheeldefinitionwingsdefinitionpinionfamilypinion and crown wheelfamilypinion and ring gearfamilypinionedfamilypinioningfamilypinionistfamilypinicneighborPinicola enucleatorneighborpiningneighborpininglyneighbor

Definitions

  1. n a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack n any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird n wing of a bird v bind the arms of v cut the wings off (of birds)