pinioning
verb
Meaning
- To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
- To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
- (transferred sense) To restrain; to limit.
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