Verb

(en verb) :; (lb)

(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:

They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them.

* 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), 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.

* ibidem , 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.

* 1665–7 , (Abraham Cowley), The Works of M^r 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 ( 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.

* 1727 , Peter Longueville, Philip Quarll (1816), page 67:

The two old ducks…being pinioned , could not fly away.

* 1849 , Daniel Jay Browne, The American Poultry Yard (1855), page 242:

They…should have been pinioned at the first joint of the wing.

(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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, title= , chapter=1 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. […]”}}

* 1916 , , Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 80

Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.

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#* , V.ii

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.

#* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX

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.

# To bind fast to something, or together.

Verb

To conquer, defeat.

*1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book IV:

*:For and we doo bataille we two wyl fyghte with one kny?t at ones / and therfore yf ye wille fyghte soo we wille be redy at what houre ye wille assigne / And yf ye wynne vs in bataille the lady shal haue her landes ageyne / ye say wel sayd sir Vwayne / therfor make yow redy so that ye be here to morne in the defence of the ladyes ryght

*1998 , Rhapsody, Emerald Sword

*:For the glory, the power to win the Black Lord, I will search for the Emerald Sword.

(label) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).

(label) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.

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(label) To obtain (someone) by wooing.

*Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)

*:Thy virtue won me; with virtue preserve me.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:She is a woman; therefore to be won .

(label) To achieve victory.

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(label) To obtain (something desired).

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(label) To cause a victory for someone.

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To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:Even in the porch he him did win .

*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

*:And when the stony path began, / By which the naked peak they won , / Up flew the snowy ptarmigan.

To extract (ore, coal, etc.).

:(Raymond)