Pin″ion (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Pinioned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Pinioning.] 1. To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings. Bacon.
2. To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. Johnson.
3. To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. Shak.
Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips. Cowper.
4. Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up. “Pinioned up by formal rules of state.” Norris.