'Pigeonwing' definitions:
Definition of 'Pigeonwing'
From: GCIDE
- Pigeonwing \Pi"geon*wing`\, n.
- 1. A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. An old mode of dressing men's side hair in a form likened to a pigeon's wings; also, a wig similarly shaped. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 3. (Dancing) A fancy step executed by jumping and striking the legs together; as, to cut a pigeonwing. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 4. A certain fancy figure in skating. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]