Citations:pinioner


 * 1901,, Bonanza: A Story of the Outside, Hutchinson, page 95:
 * I did all I knew to free my wrists, drawing in my breath, dragging, pulling, wearing the straps upon the rough wall; but my pinioners had made no mistake, and I was not the strong man I had been yesterday. Anyhow, a man is a poor creature when his arms are tied behind him.
 * 1967, Edward Hetzel Schafer, The Vermilion Bird: T’ang Images of the South,, chapter 4: “Women”, pages 81–82:
 * Unhappily, the average woman of Nam-Viet could not figure as a romantic heroine. Rather she could be preyed on like an animal. There were the lustful “women pinioners” who lay in wait on deserted roads with bands of young men carrying white staves — when an attractive woman passed by they bound her and carried her off to be used for a month or two.
 * 2004,, , ISBN 0330433016, page 96?:
 * Once the swans were upped from the water, the adults could be inspected for the beak scratches that differentiated the Marsh swans from the unmarked royal birds. The swan markers carefully scored the beaks of the cygnets in keeping with their parentage and proprietorship, and then the pinioners clipped their wings so that the young birds would be unable to fly any great distance from the Marsh.
 * ibidem, page 97?:
 * Sometimes, when the crews managed to up a family of swans, the eldritch birds would descend on the boats in a storm of inky feathers, their wings whipping back and forth so powerfully that they churned the water. Darting close, they hovered and beat about the heads of the markers and the pinioners, distracting them from their tasks. In particular, they targeted the hated pinioners.
 * Sometimes, when the crews managed to up a family of swans, the eldritch birds would descend on the boats in a storm of inky feathers, their wings whipping back and forth so powerfully that they churned the water. Darting close, they hovered and beat about the heads of the markers and the pinioners, distracting them from their tasks. In particular, they targeted the hated pinioners.