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Cogwheel

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

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Bevel gear 76% connected

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 cone…

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Pinion 76% connected

A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.

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Wheel 76% connected

A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or na…

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Cog 70% connected

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

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Tooth 70% connected

One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which u…

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Gear 92% connected

Clothing; garments; ornaments.

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Axle noun · 78% connection

The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

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Backboard noun · 78% connection

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…

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Balance noun · 78% connection

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

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Bite verb · 78% connection

The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mou…

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Bottom verb · 78% connection

To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between…

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Breasting noun · 78% connection

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…

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Breastwheel noun · 78% connection

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…

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Bucket noun · 78% connection

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…

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Click noun · 78% connection

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

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Contrate adjective · 78% connection

Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.

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Counterbalance noun · 78% connection

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…

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Crab adjective · 78% connection

A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.

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Crown wheel unknown · 78% connection

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

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Cut-off noun · 78% connection

The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stro…

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Dent noun · 78% connection

A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

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Engage verb · 78% connection

To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.

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Flank noun · 78% connection

That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.

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Gearing noun · 78% connection

The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the…

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