calamus vs pinion

calamus

noun
  • A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather. 

  • Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”) 

  • A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms. 

  • The sweet flag, Acorus calamus. 

  • A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies. 

pinion

noun
  • Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing. 

  • The smallest gear in a gear train. 

  • A moth of the genus Lithophane. 

  • The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body. 

  • A wing. 

verb
  • To restrain; to limit. 

  • 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. 

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