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  1. noun The wing of a bird.
  2. noun The outer rear edge of the wing of a bird, containing the primary feathers.
  3. noun A primary feather of a bird.
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  • Type Rack & pinion, power-assisted, speed-sensitive —  Autoblog
  • The first wheel or pinion, is the one on which the mainspring is wound, the second is the center wheel or pinion, on which the minute hand is mounted and from which the hour wheel is geared. —  Modern Mechanix
  • I attached the governor to the fourth pinion, or the one which was now last in the train. —  Modern Mechanix
  • I now whittled a little block of wood into the shape of a spindle and fastened it rigidly to the center pinion, in the place where the minute hand had been. —  Modern Mechanix
  • Rack and pinion, Servotronic speed-sensitive power-assisted steering, 3.0 turns lock-to-lock —  Autoblog
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  1. Middle English, from Old French pignon, from Vulgar Latin *pinniō, pinniōn-, from Latin penna, pinna, feather; see pinna.
  2. French pignon, from Old French peignon, probably from peigne, comb, from Latin pecten, from pectere, to comb.

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  1. Formerly also pinnion; from Middle English pinion, pynyon, from Old French pignon, pennon, panon, a pinion, plume, feather of an arrow, same as pennon, penon, etc., a flag, banner, = Spanish piñon, pinion, = Italian pennone, a bunch of feathers, a pennon, from Latin penna, pinna, wing, feather: see pin, pen, and cf. pinion, another use of the same word.
  2. Formerly also pinnion; from pinion, n.
  3. Formerly also pinnion; from French pignon, a small wheel, pinion, spur-nut, = Spanish piñon, the tooth of a wheel, pinion; a particular use of the word represented by pinion, a wing, etc., from Latin penna, pinna, wing, feather, pinna, a float of a water-wheel: see pen, pin, and cf. pinion.
 

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