Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PIN-ION, v.t. [pin'yon.]

1. To bind or confine the wings. – Bacon.
2. To confine by binding the wings.
3. To cut off the first joint of the wing.
4. To bind or confine the arm or arms to the body. – Dryden.
5. To confine; to shackle; to chain; as, to be pinioned by formal rules of state. – Norris.
6. To bind; to fasten to. – Pope.