Thesaurus / pinion
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Rincon Mountain Wilderness skirts the boundary of Saguaro National Park with chimneys of towering rocks and hills spotted with pinions, all perfectly positioned to protect the park’s colossal cacti.
50 U.S. WILDERNESS AREAS, RANKEDERILEYJULY 26, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEIt is with our body as it is with a watch which indicates the hours, and which goes not if the spring or a pinion be broken.
LETTERS TO EUGENIAPAUL HENRI THIRY HOLBACHThe foam and the fangs and the flowers,The raving and ravenous rage Of a poet as pinion'd in powersAs a condor confined in a cage!
THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSEVARIOUSThe man kicked him ferociously in the breast before the attacker managed to pinion the legs in his arms.
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAYClock-pinion; which may be used for either nicking, piecing, or squaring-off purposes.
PRACTICAL MECHANICS FOR BOYSJ. S. ZERBEThen draw a vertical line (A) midway between the marks of the line 2, and this will be the center of the main pinion.
PRACTICAL MECHANICS FOR BOYSJ. S. ZERBENot as I hold with enamelling, myself—'tain't what I call 'igh farmin'—takes too much outer the land in my 'pinion.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 108, MARCH 9TH 1895VARIOUSI say, Ammon, can't you go to the city with us and help me find a shop where I can get this pinion fixed?
A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOSTGENE STRATTON PORTERIt was as though an angel's wing had swept my temples, and left a glittering pinion there.
THE ORPHEUS C. KERR PAPERS. SERIES 1ROBERT H. NEWELLThen slide the spur pinion into the gear and open the throttle valve wide.
FARM ENGINES AND HOW TO RUN THEMJAMES H. STEPHENSONWORDS RELATED TO PINION
- action
- attenuate
- batter
- blunt
- cripple
- damage
- debilitate
- disarm
- disenable
- disqualify
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exhaust
- hamstring
- handicap
- harm
- hock
- hogtie
- hurt
- 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
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