different between pinion vs peg

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?nj?n/
• Rhymes: -?nj?n
• Hyphenation: pin?ion

Etymology 1

From Old French pignon, from Latin penna (“feather”).

Noun

pinion (plural pinions)

1. A wing.
2. (ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.

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3. (ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
4. A moth of the genus Lithophane.
5. (obsolete) A fetter for the arm.

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Verb

pinion (third-person singular simple present pinions, present participle pinioning, simple past and past participle pinioned) (transitive)

1. To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
   • 1577, Barnabe Googe (translator), Konrad Heresbach (author), Foure Bookes of Husbandrie, book iv (1586), page 169:

     They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them.

   • 1641–2, Henry Best (author), Donald Woodward (editor), The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642: With a Glossary and Linguistic Commentary by Peter McClure, Oxford University Press/British Academy (1984), ?ISBN (10), ?ISBN (13), page 115:

     When they are aboute fortnights olde (for they must bee driven noe longer) yow must watch where the henne useth to sitte on nights, and come when it beginneth to bee darke and throwe somethinge over the henne as shee broodeth them, then take and clippe every of theire right wings. Then when they are aboute moneths old, yow must come after the same manner and pinnion or cutte a joynte of every of theire right winges.

   • ibidem, page 129:

     The Swanners gette up the younge swannes about midsummer [24 June] and footemarke them for the owners, and then doe they allsoe pinnion them, cuttinge a joynte of theire right winges, and then att Michaellmasse [29 Sept.] doe they bringe them hoame, or else bringe hoame some, and leave the rest att some of the mills and wee sende for them.

   • 1665–1667, Abraham Cowley, The Works of M^r Abraham Cowley (fifth edition, 1678), “Several Di?cour?es by way of E??ays, in Ver?e and Pro?e”, essay 9: ‘The ?hortne?s of Life and uncertainty of Riches’, closing verses, verse 3 (page 138):

     Suppo?e, thou Fortune could to tamene?s bring, / And clip or pinion her wing; / Suppo?e thou could’?t on Fate ?o far prevail / As not to cut off thy Entail.

   • 1727, Peter Longueville, Philip Quarll (1816), page 67:

     The two old ducks…being pinioned, could not fly away.

   • 1849, Daniel Jay Browne, The American Poultry Yard (1855), page 242:

     They…should have been pinioned at the first joint of the wing.

2. To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.

   Synonym: shackle

   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 80

     Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.

3. (transferred sense, figuratively) To restrain; to limit.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     I was suddenly seized from behind and thrown to earth. As I fell, a warm body fell on top of me, and hands grasped my arms and legs. When I could look up, I saw a number of giant fingers pinioning me down, while others stood about surveying me.

   • 1999: Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow, scene 14

     I am pinioned by a chain of reasoning! Why else do his four friends conspire to conceal […]

Derived terms

• pinioned
• pinioner
• pinioning

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French pignon.

Noun

pinion (plural pinions)

1. (mechanical engineering) The smallest gear in a gear train.
   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

     A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.

Derived terms

• rack and pinion

Translations

Further reading

• pinion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pinioning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• flight feather on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “Pinion, v.” listed on page 883/2–3 of volume VII (O–P, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray, 1908) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English billion.

Numeral

pinion

1. billion

Romanian

Etymology

From French pignon.

Noun

pinion n (plural pinioane)

1. gearwheel

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Saxon *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *ba?- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek ??????? (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak.

This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, which was very rare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/, [p???]
• Homophone: Peg
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

peg (plural pegs)

1. A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
2. Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the animal's nose and one near the end of its tail to measure its body length.
3. A protrusion used to hang things on.

4. (figuratively) A support; a reason; a pretext.

5. (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
6. (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold
7. (Britain) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
   • 1898, unknown author, Harper's Magazine

     This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink.
8. A place formally allotted for fishing
9. (colloquial, dated) A leg or foot.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2

     "Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books."

10. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.

    • But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,

      As honest as I am.

    • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 4

      Did we form ourselves, choosing, and our powers? I find myself, for one, as a stringed instrument with chords and stops - but I have no power to turn the pegs, or pitch my thoughts to a higher or lower key.

11. A step; a degree.
    • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, A Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy (sermon)

      to screw papal authority to the highest peg

    • We still have worsted all your holy tricks; / Trepann'd your party with intrigue, / And took your grandees down a peg […]

12. Clipping of clothes peg.
13. (journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
    • 2010, Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan, Keywords in News and Journalism Studies (page 111)

      Journalists and prospective sources wishing to attract their attention are constantly on the lookout for pegs. The process by which a peg is identified is informed by news values.

14. (cricket, slang) A stump.
    • 1961, Colin McCool, Cricket is a Game (page 123)

      Lindy hit the pegs with five deliveries out of six.

15. (slang) The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a dildo.

Synonyms

• (small quantity of strong liquor): shot

Related terms

Translations

Verb

peg (third-person singular simple present pegs, present participle pegging, simple past and past participle pegged)

1. (transitive) To fasten using a peg.

2. (transitive) To affix or pin.

3. (transitive) To fix a value or price.

4. (transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
5. (transitive, slang) To throw.
6. (transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.)

7. (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.

8. (transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).

9. (slang, transitive, typically in heterosexual contexts) To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a dildo.
10. (intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
    • 1911, William Montgomerie Lamont, Volunteer memories (page 160)

      For more than the period of his splendid service in India, which the country was not slow to acknowledge, the Volunteers had kept pegging at it, despite all the official obstacles thrown in the way […]

Related terms

• level pegging
• peggable
• pegging
• pegged pants

Translations

See also

• wedge, compare Latin cuneus
• cunny, cunt, compare Latin cunnus
• (cribbage): muggins

Anagrams

• EPG

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paj/, [p??j?]
• Rhymes: -aj?

Verb

peg

1. imperative of pege

Middle English

Noun

peg

1. peg

Slovene

Noun

peg

1. genitive dual/plural of pega