单词 | lanternwheel |
释义 | > as lemmaslantern-wheel lantern-wheel n. = sense 7d. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > lantern wallower1548 trundle1611 trundle-head1611 lantern1659 lantern-wheel1787 trundle-wheel1800 lantern-pinion1881 1787 A. Young Jrnl. 28 May in Trav. France (1792) i. 11 The stone drawn up by lanthorn wheels of a great diameter. 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 199 These parallel spokes are then connected together by bands of string, thus forming a kind of lantern-wheel. lantern-wheel d. Mechanics. A form of cog-wheel (see quot. 1812). Also lantern-wheel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > lantern wallower1548 trundle1611 trundle-head1611 lantern1659 lantern-wheel1787 trundle-wheel1800 lantern-pinion1881 1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 18 Near the end, there is..a Lanthorn or Pinion of 12. Staves. 1709 F. Hauksbee Physico-mech. Exper. 1 The Winch is fasten'd to a Spindle, that passes thro' a Lanthorn, whose Pins perform the Office of Cogs. 1805 Brewster in J. Ferguson Lect. I. 82 (note) A lantern. 1812 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. I. 75 Sometimes the smaller wheel is a cylinder, in which the top and bottom are formed by circles, connected by staves inserted..at equal distances along their circumferences; and it is then called a lantern, the staves serving as teeth. 1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Mechanics ii. vii. 30 The teeth of the wheel, instead of working in the leaves of a pinion, are made to act upon a form of wheel called a lantern. 1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 126 The screw is slipped into a hole in a narrow-faced ‘lantern’. < as lemmas |
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