单词 | cross-head guides |
释义 | > as lemmascross-head guides a. Mechanics. Something which serves to steady or direct the motion of a thing, and upon, through, or against which it moves, slides, or is conducted in the required direction; esp. a bar, rod, etc. which guides or ‘bears’ machinery having reciprocating motion; often in plural; spec. (in the Steam engine) the rods on which the cross-head of the piston slides; also called cross-head guides (see cross-head n. 1); (in Mining) the bars or rails which guide the cage up and down the shaft. (See also quot. 1844.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > guides guide1763 quadrant1836 strap-fork1902 1763–6 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum 57 [Wire-drawing.] Directed by means of a small conical hole in a piece of iron, called a guide. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 427 Each spinner splices his thread, and throws it on the nearest guide, to keep it out of the way, and to conduct it to the winding-machine. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 500 If flax..be passed into the machine..through a guide..and be conducted [etc.]. 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. Gloss. Guides of a waggon, felly-pieces or arcs of circles fastened on the fore axle as a bearing for the bed of the waggon when it locks. 1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 597 There is a guide to prevent the lateral displacement of the edges. 1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 612 The distance between each couple of guides is just sufficient to admit of a cage working up and down between them. 1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §424 The nut, if prevented by fixed guides from rotating, will move in the direction of the common axis. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 143 Guides, the holes in a cross-beam through which the stems of the stamps in a stamp-mill rise and fall. 1894 Outing 24 227/1 A useful rod for fly-fishing..may be equipped with either rings and keepers or standing guides. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 43 The rod's return whings glimmerin' through the guides. < as lemmas |
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