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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | Copyright

pinion1 terminal segment of a bird's wing, (gen.) wing. XV. — OF. pignon pl. wing-feathers, wings, (now only ‘gable’):- Rom. *pinniō, -ōn-, augm. of L. pinna PIN.
Hence pinion vb. cut the pinions of; bind the arms OF. XVI.

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