fledge vs pinion

fledge

verb
  • To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight. 

  • To grow, cover or be covered with feathers. 

  • To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect. 

  • To decorate with feathers. 

pinion

verb
  • 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 restrain; to limit. 

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

noun
  • The smallest gear in a gear train. 

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

  • A moth of the genus Lithophane. 

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

  • A wing. 

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