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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Dat he best know hisself; but if my 'pinion am axed, I should say, to wipe de fellah's nose wiv.
CUDJO'S CAVEJ. T. TROWBRIDGE
Atter dey spies him, dey axes im ter pass his pinion on de meetin.
BYPATHS IN DIXIESARAH JOHNSON COCKE
Even the pinion of the eagle fails in its rarified air, and the chamois ventures not to climb its steep and slippery crags.
In the blue-fronted Amazon parrot (Chrysotis æstiva)—a most variable bird—the normally red edge of the pinion is sometimes yellow.
THE MAKING OF SPECIESDOUGLAS DEWAR
It stand dere 'bout fifteen minutes while I draws my best 'pinion of it.
SLAVE NARRATIVES: A FOLK HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES FROM INTERVIEWS WITH FORMER SLAVESWORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
The shafts thus turned are connected by a pair of gears, M L, of which one drives a pinion on the shaft of the fly-wheel.
A HISTORY OF THE GROWTH OF THE STEAM-ENGINEROBERT H. THURSTON
This sleeve may be operated in either direction along f by rotating the pinion b.
E is another wheel of 92 teeth, working in F, a pinion of 22: both pinions being fixed on the same arbor, I G.
A NEW CENTURY OF INVENTIONSJAMES WHITE
A pinion is a small toothed wheel; a trundle is a pinion with cylindrical staves for teeth.
Well den, Luce, my conchenshus 'pinion ob de whole matter am dat we won't go on no scursions.
THE UNIVERSAL RECITERVARIOUS
WORDS RELATED TO PINION
- adhere
- attach
- bandage
- border
- chain
- cinch
- clamp
- connect
- constrict
- cover
- dress
- edge
- encase
- enchain
- enfetter
- fetter
- finish
- fix
- fold
- furl
- glue
- hamper
- handcuff
- hem
- hitch
- hitch on
- hobble
- hook on
- hook up
- lace
- lap
- lash
- leash
- manacle
- moor
- muzzle
- paste
- peg down
- pin
- pin down
- pinion
- put together
- restrain
- restrict
- rope
- shackle
- stick
- strap
- swathe
- tack on
- tether
- tie
- tie up
- trammel
- trim
- truss
- unite
- wrap
- yoke
- attenuate
- batter
- blunt
- damage
- debilitate
- disarm
- disenable
- disqualify
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exhaust
- hamstring
- handicap
- harm
- hock
- hogtie
- hurt
- immobilize
- impair
- incapacitate
- invalidate
- kibosh
- knock out
- maim
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- muzzle
- paralyze
- pinion
- prostrate
- put out of action
- render incapable
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- shatter
- shoot down
- spoil
- take out
- throw monkey wrench in
- total
- unbrace
- undermine
- unfit
- unstrengthen
- weaken
- wreck
- attenuate
- batter
- blunt
- damage
- debilitate
- disarm
- disenable
- disqualify
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exhaust
- hamstring
- handicap
- harm
- hock
- hogtie
- hurt
- immobilize
- impair
- incapacitate
- invalidate
- kibosh
- knock out
- maim
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- muzzle
- paralyze
- pinion
- prostrate
- put out of action
- render incapable
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- shatter
- shoot down
- spoil
- take out
- throw monkey wrench in
- total
- unbrace
- undermine
- unfit
- unstrengthen
- weaken
- wreck
- attenuate
- batter
- blunt
- damage
- debilitate
- disarm
- disenable
- disqualify
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exhaust
- hamstring
- handicap
- harm
- hock
- hogtie
- hurt
- immobilize
- impair
- incapacitate
- invalidate
- kibosh
- knock out
- maim
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- muzzle
- paralyze
- pinion
- prostrate
- put out of action
- render incapable
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- shatter
- shoot down
- spoil
- take out
- throw monkey wrench in
- total
- unbrace
- undermine
- unfit
- unstrengthen
- weaken
- wreck
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.