| 单词 | wheel brace |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswheel brace wheel brace n. (a) a tool for screwing and unscrewing nuts on the wheel of a vehicle; (b) a kind of hand drill worked by the turning of a wheel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > brace wimble?1362 brace1567 bit-brace1881 wheel brace1920 brace-drill- society > occupation and work > equipment > screwdrivers, wrenches, spanners > [noun] > spanner or wrench > other spanners or wrenches tap wrench1815 doghook1847 stock1862 stud box1867 socket wrench1905 Allen key1910 wheel brace1920 tongs1922 nut driver1939 spud wrench1939 torque wrench1948 nut runner1958 Mole1959 skate key1962 1920 Motor Man. (ed. 23) xiv. 144 The most popular form of fitting is by means of separate bolts carried on the fixed hub, to which the pressed-steel wheel is held by a number of capped nuts which can be detached by a wheel brace. 1964 F. Preston Man makes Hole 6/2 The hand drill or wheel brace is of fairly recent origin, although it derives from the so-called bevel drill widely made in Germany. 1974Wheel brace [see wheel-changing n. and adj. at Compounds 1c(b)]. 1975 R. A. Salaman Dict. Tools 187/2 Drill, hand (Wheel Brace..)..The modern form of Hand Drill was an American innovation of about 1870 which reached this country about the turn of the century. 1984 B. Francis AA Car Duffer's Guide 38/2 Then, with the wheelbrace, slacken off all the wheel nuts about half a turn. < as lemmas |
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