1
a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
2
any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
5
The smallest gear in a gear train.
2
cut the wings off (of birds)
3
To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
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