Definition of "pinioned" [pin•ioned]

• Simple past tense and past participle of pinion. (verb)

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• "But Kane moved not as they took his blade and pinioned his iron hands."
• "Based on the autobiographical book by Aron Ralston, the film recounts how the canyoneer was forced to cut off his arm after it got pinioned by a boulder."
• "“To those red-blooded Americans who signed up to fight somebody and arrived in Ceylon to find themselves pinioned beneath P Division directives, the SEAC situation was just another form of British tyranny—frustration without representation,” she wrote."