Axle: alternatives and connections

The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fiber…

An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.

A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing throug…

A spindle or axle of a wheel.

A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the whee…

A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).

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 b…

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…

Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.

One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.

A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.

A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate…

A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.