Barker's mill
() A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis. |
Bevel gear
() A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet. |
Craze-mill
(n.) Alt. of Crazing-mill |
Crazing-mill
(n.) A mill for grinding tin ore. |
Gear
(n.) Clothing |
Gear
(n.) Goods |
Gear
(n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear |
Gear
(n.) The harness of horses or cattle |
Gear
(n.) Warlike accouterments. |
Gear
(n.) Manner |
Gear
(n.) Business matters |
Gear
(n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel |
Gear
(n.) An apparatus for performing a special function |
Gear
(n.) Engagement of parts with each other |
Gear
(n.) See 1st Jeer (b). |
Gear
(n.) Anything worthless |
Gear
(v. t.) To dress |
Gear
(v. t.) To provide with gearing. |
Gear
(v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear. |
Head gear
(n.) Alt. of Headgear |
Mill
(n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. |
Mill
(n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces |
Mill
(n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process |
Mill
(n.) A machine for grinding and polishing |
Mill
(n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action |
Mill
(n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on |
Mill
(n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. |
Mill
(n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. |
Mill
(n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot. |
Mill
(n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. |
Mill
(n.) A pugilistic. |
Mill
(n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill |
Mill
(n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine |
Mill
(n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head |
Mill
(n.) To pass through a fulling mill |
Mill
(n.) To beat with the fists. |
Mill
(n.) To roll into bars, as steel. |
Mill
(v. i.) To swim under water |
Mill-cake
(n.) The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation. |
Mill-sixpence
(n.) A milled sixpence |
Pinion
(n.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples. |
Pinion
(n.) A feather |
Pinion
(n.) A wing, literal or figurative. |
Pinion
(n.) The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body. |
Pinion
(n.) A fetter for the arm. |
Pinion
(n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack) |
Pinion
(v. t.) To bind or confine the wings of |
Pinion
(v. t.) To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. |
Pinion
(v. t.) To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. |
Pinion
(v. t.) Hence, generally, to confine |
wheeling
rolling | propelling something on wheels |
grind
mill
pulverization
pulverisation | the act of grinding to a powder or dust |
| rolling | the act of robbing a helpless person, he was charged with rolling drunks in the park |
gizzard
ventriculus
gastric mill | thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food |
pennon
pinion | wing of a bird |
flight feather
pinion quill quill feather | any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird |
bevel gear
pinion and crown wheel
pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle |
| chafing gear | covering (usually rope or canvas) of a line or spar to protect it from friction |
| cider mill | mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider |
coffee mill
coffee grinder | a mill that grinds roasted coffee beans |
| cotton mill | a textile mill for making cotton textiles |
differential gear
differential | a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds, used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves |
epicyclic train
epicyclic gear train | a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis |
factory
mill manufacturing plant
manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
first gear
first
low gear
low | the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle, used to start a car moving |
fishing gear
tackle fishing tackle
fishing rig
rig | gear used in fishing |
| flour mill | a mill for grinding grain into flour |
| foul-weather gear | protective garment that is intended to keep the wearer dry and warm in bad weather |
gear
gear wheel
geared wheel
cogwheel | a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion |
gear paraphernalia
appurtenance | equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. |
| gear gear mechanism | a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) |
gearbox
gear box
gear case | the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed |
gearing
gear geartrain
power train
train | wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed, the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain |
gearshift
gearstick
shifter
gear lever | a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears, in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever |
high gear
high | a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed |
| landing gear | an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground |
lantern pinion
lantern wheel | a small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks |
mill
grinder milling machinery | machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing |
millwheel
mill wheel | water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill |
| paper mill | a mill where paper is manufactured |
pepper mill
pepper grinder | a mill for grinding pepper |
| pinion | a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack |
planetary gear
epicyclic gear
planet wheel
planet gear | an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train |
public house
pub
saloon pothouse
gin mill
taphouse | tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms, often provides light meals |
quartz battery
quartz mill | a stamp mill for stamping quartz |
| rack and pinion | a wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack, converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa) |
| reduction gear | gearing that reduces an input speed to a slower output speed |
reverse
reverse gear | the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed |
| rolling hitch | a hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope |
| rolling mill | steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars |
| rolling pin | utensil consisting of a cylinder (usually of wood) with a handle at each end, used to roll out dough |
| rolling stock | collection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrier |
second gear
second | the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle, he had to shift down into second to make the hill |
spur gear
spur wheel | gear wheels that mesh in the same plane |
stable gear
saddlery
tack | gear for a horse |
stamp mill
stamping mill | a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps |
steel mill
steelworks
steel plant
steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
| steering gear | a gear that couples the steering wheel to the steering linkage of a motor vehicle |
| sun gear | the central gear in an epicyclic train |
| textile mill | a factory for making textiles |