Pinion vs Tail - What's the difference?
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A wing.
* , II.v
* Alexander Pope
* 1839 ,
The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
* , III.xii
A moth of the genus Lithophane .
(obsolete) A fetter for the arm.
(lb) To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
* 1577 , (Barnabe Googe) (translator), (Konrad Heresbach) (author), Foure Bookes of Husbandrie , book iv (1586), page 169:
* 1641–2 , Henry Best (author), Donald Woodward (editor), The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642: With a Glossary and Linguistic Commentary by Peter McClure , (Oxford University Press)/(British Academy) (1984), ISBN 0197260292 (10), ISBN 9780197260296 (13),
* ibidem ,
* 1665–7 , (Abraham Cowley), The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley (fifth edition, 1678), “Several Di?cour?es by way of E??ays, in Ver?e and Pro?e”, essay 9: ‘The ?hortne?s of Life and uncertainty of Riches’, closing verses, verse 3 (
* 1727 , Peter Longueville, Philip Quarll (1816), page 67:
* 1849 , Daniel Jay Browne, The American Poultry Yard (1855), page 242:
(lb) To bind the arms of any one, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding; to shackle.
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# To bind fast to something, or together.
The smallest gear in a gear drive train.
* 1844 ,
(anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
* (rfdate), Harvey:
The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
(statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as , a long tail.
One who surreptitiously follows another.
(cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
(typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g'', ''q'' or ''y .
(chiefly, in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
(mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
The buttocks or backside.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
*, I.49:
(slang) The male member of a person or animal.
(slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 13:
A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
* (rfdate), Walter Scott:
(anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
(surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
(nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
(music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
(mining) A tailing.
(architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
To follow and observe surreptitiously.
(architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in'' or ''into
(nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
* Fuller
To pull or draw by the tail.
(legal) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
(legal) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
Pinion is a related term of tail.
As nouns the difference between pinion and tail
is that pinion is a wing or pinion can be the smallest gear in a gear drive train while tail is .As a verb pinion
is (lb) to cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.pinion
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pignon, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Therefore do nimble-pinion' d doves draw Love, / And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
- Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome.
- Never seraph spread a pinion / Over fabric half so fair.
- (Johnson)
- An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither / He sends so poor a pinion of his wing
- (Ainsworth)
Verb
(en verb) :; (lb)- They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them.
page 115:
- When they are aboute fortnights olde (for they must bee driven noe longer) yow must watch where the henne useth to sitte on nights, and come when it beginneth to bee darke and throwe somethinge over the henne as shee broodeth them, then take and clippe every of theire right wings. Then when they are aboute moneths old, yow must come after the same manner and pinnion or cutte a joynte of every of theire right winges.
page 129:
- The Swanners gette up the younge swannes about midsummer [24 June] and footemarke them for the owners, and then doe they allsoe pinnion them, cuttinge a joynte of theire right winges, and then att Michaellmasse [29 Sept.] doe they bringe them hoame, or else bringe hoame some, and leave the rest att some of the mills and wee sende for them.
page 138):
- Suppo?e, thou Fortune could to tamene?s bring, // And clip or pinion her wing; // Suppo?e thou could’?t on Fate ?o far prevail // As not to cut off thy Entail.
- The two old ducks…being pinioned , could not fly away.
- They…should have been pinioned at the first joint of the wing.
citation, passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned , and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}
- Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.
- Know, sir that I / Will not wait pinion' d at your master's court, / Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia.
- I was suddenly seized from behind and thrown to earth. As I fell, a warm body fell on top of me, and hands grasped my arms and legs. When I could look up, I saw a number of giant fingers pinioning me down, while others stood about surveying me.
Derived terms
* * *References
* “Pinion, v.'']” listed on page 883/2–3 of volume VII (O–P, ed. , 1908) of ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles](1st ed.)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) pignon.Noun
(en noun)- A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.
Derived terms
* rack and pinion English terms with transferred sensestail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head'' and ''tail .Noun
(en noun)- Most primates have a tail and fangs.
- Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails that hang on willow trees.
- A sequence is said to be ''frequently '' if every tail of the sequence contains .
- By Goddis sydes, syns I her thyder broughte, / She hath gote me more money with her tayle / Than hath some shyppe that into Bordews sayle.
- They were wont to wipe their tailes .
- After the burly macho nudists' polar bear dip, their tails''' were spectacularly shrunk, so they looked like an immature kid's innocent '''tail .
- I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
- The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail .
- "Ah," said he, "if you saw but the chief with his tail on."
Synonyms
* ass, poontang, poon, tang, pussy, punaniDerived terms
* cat-o'-nine-tails * chase one's tail * coattail * cocktail * have the world by the tail * rattail * shirttail * tailback * tailcoat * tail covert * tail-end * tail feather * tail fin * tailgate * tail lamp * tail light * tail-off * tailpiece * tailpipe * tailplane * tail-race * tail-skid * tailspin * tailstock * tailwheel * tailwind * turn tail * wagtail * whitetail * yellowtailSee also
* caudalVerb
(en verb)- Tail that car!
- This vessel tails downstream.
- Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed , continued uncancelled.
- (Hudibras)
Etymology 2
From (etyl), probably from a shortened form of entail .Adjective
- estate tail
Noun
(en noun)- tail male — limitation to male heirs
- in tail — subject to such a limitation
