pinion1 (pinyon)

t. [Formerly also pinnion; Not like a tame bird, that returns; nor like a hawk, that will shew where she is by her bells; but like an eagle, whose wings thou canst neither clip nor pinion . 4499 Sp. piñon, the tooth of a wheel, pinion; a particular use of the word represented by pinion1, a wing, etc., or wing, feather, pinna, a float of a water-wheel: see pen2, pin1, and cf. pinion1. ] A small wheel with cogs or teeth which engage the teeth of a larger wheel with cogs or teeth, or sometimes only an arbor or spindle having notches leaves, which are caught succe ively by the teeth of the wheel, and the motion thereby communicated. See also cut under pawl - pre . -Flying pinion, the fly of a clock. See fly1, 3 (a). - Lantern-pinion. Same as lantern - wheel.- Long pinion, a pinion whose leaves extend so far along the axis that the wheel into which the pinion works can move along its axis without becoming ungeared. - Pinion of report, a smaller pinion moved by the cannon-pinion of a clock.Rack and pinion. See rack. n. Spur-wheel, with Pin ion a. pinions (pin'yon), Same as piñon. [U. S.] pinion-bone (pin'yon-bon), n. The bones of the pinion taken together. See pinion1, 3. pinion-file ile (pin'yon-fil), n. A small knife-edged file used by watchmakers. pinion-gage (pin'yon-gāj), n. Fine calipers used by watchmakers. pinion ist (pin'yon-ist), n. [ All the flitting pinnionists of ayre Attentive sate. IMG:content-0222.png:[blocks in formation] A doublet of black velvet... pinked upon scarlet satin. Scott. II. in trans. To make a hole. Heo pinkes with heore penne on heore par chem in. Political Songs (ed. Wright), p. 156. pink1 (pingk), n . [ pink1 , v.] 1. A puncture or small hole made by some sharp slender instrument such as a rapier or dagger; a stab wound. A freebooter's pink, sir, three or four inches deep. Middle ton, Your Five Gallants, iii. 5. 2. A small hole or eyelet punched in silk or other material with a pinking-iron; a scallop. You had rather have An ulcer in your body than a pink More in your clothes. B. Jonson, Magnet ick Lady, iii. 4.