Pinion

(noun.) a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack.

(verb.) cut the wings off (of birds).

(verb.) bind the arms of.

手打:玛丽安

• Now, my private 'pinion is, Lizy took der road; so I think we'd better take de straight one. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Returning now to the fourth pinion, we see that it also carries a wheel, which engages another little pinion, called the escape pinion. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Next to the center comes the third pinion and wheel, and then the fourth, which is the last wheel in the train which has regular gear teeth. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This escape pinion also carries a wheel, but it is radically different in appearance, as well as in action, from any of the previously mentioned wheels. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Lord, the spring that ar gal's got in her an't common, I'm o' 'pinion. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And my 'pinion is, Sammy, that if your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly flummoxed, and that's all about it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Another form was that of Gompertz in England in 1821, who contrived a segmental rack connected with a frame over the front wheel and engaging a pinion on the wheel axle. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• When I was clear of the house, a black muffler was drawn tightly over my mouth from behind, and my arms were pinioned. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• And then a living mass of destruction sprang from the surrounding darkness full upon the creature that held me pinioned to the ground. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• He could not brush it off with his hands poor fellow, they being pinioned. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The master aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arm; and shrieked aloud for the beadle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It was like sitting in a vault strewn with dead bodies--the cap, the noose, the pinioned arms, the faces that he knew, even beneath that hideous veil. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Her young friend sat nervously twiddling her fingers in a pinioned attitude, as if she were trying to hide her elbows. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Why, no; only Joe Scott's wrists were a little galled with being pinioned too tightly behind his back. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• These arbor teeth are in all cases called, not wheels but pinions, and in watch trains the wheels always drive the pinions. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Now that I am arrived at its base, my pinions are furled, the mighty stairs are before me, and step by step I must ascend the wondrous fane-- Speak! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The ole garden is open to you, and your airy pinions carry you through it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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