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 |
Bogie
(n.) A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track. |
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. |
Cone pulley
() A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters |
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. |
Pulley
(v. t.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. |
Pulley
(b. t.) To raise or lift by means of a pulley. |
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. |
Station
(n.) The act of standing |
Station
(n.) A state of standing or rest |
Station
(n.) The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time |
Station
(n.) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route |
Station
(n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct. |
Station
(n.) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying. |
Station
(n.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs |
Station
(n.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely. |
Station
(n.) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty. |
Station
(n.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them |
Station
(n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc. |