Balance wheel () A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock |
Balance wheel () A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance). |
Balance wheel () A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine |
Bearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear |
Bearing (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self |
Bearing (n.) Patient endurance |
Bearing (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it |
Bearing (n.) Purport |
Bearing (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth |
Bearing (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports |
Bearing (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests. |
Bearing (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span |
Bearing (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing |
Bearing (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. |
Bearing (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. |
Bearing (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc. |
Bearing (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. |
Bearing (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |
Bearing cloth () A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. |
Bearing rein () A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up |
Brush wheel () A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference. |
Brush wheel () A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing. |
Car wheel () A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck. |
Catharine wheel () See catherine wheel. |
Catherine wheel () Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window. |
Catherine wheel () A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name. |
Chain wheel () A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel. |
Chain wheel () An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water. |
Count-wheel (n.) The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes. |
Crown wheel () A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane |
Fudge wheel () A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole. |
Rush-bearing (n.) A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. |
Scape-wheel (n.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play. |
Side-wheel (a.) Having a paddle wheel on each side |
Sprocket wheel () Same as Chain wheel. |
Stern-wheel (a.) Having a paddle wheel at the stern |
Water wheel () Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water |
Water wheel () The paddle wheel of a steam vessel. |
Water wheel () A wheel for raising water |
Wheel (n.) A circular frame turning about an axis |
Wheel (n.) Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel. |
Wheel (n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning. |
Wheel (n.) An instrument of torture formerly used. |
Wheel (n.) A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering. |
Wheel (n.) A potter's wheel. See under Potter. |
Wheel (n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. |
Wheel (n.) The burden or refrain of a song. |
Wheel (n.) A bicycle or a tricycle |
Wheel (n.) A rolling or revolving body |
Wheel (n.) A turn revolution |