PINION (3)

Pin″ion (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinioned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pinioning.] 1. 1. To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings. Bacon.
2. 2. To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. Johnson.
3. 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. 4. Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up. “Pinioned up by formal rules of state.” Norris.