Pulley: alternatives and connections

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected pa…

A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pu…

of Breast

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…

Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.

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

To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.

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

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevoc…

Distinct; separate; not the same; other.

One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.

That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their mot…

Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation fr…