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Meaning of PIGEONWING

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pi"geon*wing`\, n.
1. A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.
2. An old mode of dressing men's side hair in a form likened
   to a pigeon's wings; also, a wig similarly shaped.
3. (Dancing) A fancy step executed by jumping and striking
   the legs together; as, to cut a pigeonwing.
4. A certain fancy figure in skating.
5. (Tempering) A color, brown shaded with purple, coming
   between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors
   in drawing the temper of hardened steel.
 
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