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RADII |
Spokes |
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RIBS |
Umbrella spokes |
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RUNGS |
Ladder spokes |
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SPOKE |
To furnish with spokes, as a wheel. |
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FELLY |
The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a
wheel, supported by the spokes. |
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DISH |
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish;
as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes. |
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STRADDLE |
To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the
spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub. |
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SPRAG |
To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade,
by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel. |
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SPOKESHAVE |
A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing
the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work. |
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WEB |
A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for
connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc. |
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STRADDLING |
Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in
two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3. |
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NAVE |
The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes
radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob. |
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STAGGER |
To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median
line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler
seam. |
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SPIDER |
...mbers,
often connected by crosspieces; as, a casting forming the hub and
spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the
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PHOTODROME |
An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes,
which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of
light passing thro... |
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WHEEL |
...g disk,
whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii,
and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used f... |