Rowel: alternatives and connections

One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

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

To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce.

Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.

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…

A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into…

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

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 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.

a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its s…

A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehen…

That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short w…