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Adjective pinioned has 2 senses
  1. pinioned - (of birds) especially having the flight feathers
    Antonym:     wingless (indirect, via winged)
  2. pinioned - bound fast especially having the arms restrained
    Antonym:     unbound (indirect, via bound)
,Verb pinion has 2 senses
  1. pinion, shackle - bind the arms of
    --1 is one way to restrain, confine, hold
    Sample sentence:
    They want to pinion the prisoners
  2. pinion - cut the wings off (of birds)
    --2 is one way to     disable, disenable, incapacitate
    Derived forms: noun pinion3, noun pinion2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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