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单词 pull-piece
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pull-piece
pull-piece n. Obsolete a wire or chain on a clock which when pulled causes it to strike the last hour.
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1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 300/1 X is a piece called the pull-piece, by pulling a string at the end of which the lifting-piece is raised, and the clock is made to repeat the hour last struck at any required time.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1821/1 Pull-piece (Horology), the wire or string..by pulling which the clock is made to strike.
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