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Cogwheel

noun
1.
A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.  Synonyms: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel.





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"Cogwheel" Quotes from Famous Books



... truckle, caster, roulette, rowel; gear, cogwheel, miter wheel; pulley, sheave (wheel of a pulley). Associated words: spoke, felly, hub, strake, tire, straddle, cog, sprocket, linchpin, arbor, axle, axletree, sprag, traction, trochilics, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... top, on account of his breath being short, but when I told him he could ride up on a trolley car, and have the volcano brought right to him, he weakened, and one morning we left Naples early and before two hours had passed we were on a little cogwheel railroad going up, and dad was looking down on the scenery, expecting every minute the cogs would slip and we would cut loose and go down all in a heap and be plastered all over the vineyards and big trees and ...
— Peck's Bad Boy Abroad • George W. Peck


Words linked to "Cogwheel" :   epicyclic gear, worm gear, planet gear, sprocket, rack and pinion, pinion and ring gear, spur gear, gear, pinion and crown wheel, gear wheel, bevel gear, geared wheel, worm wheel, planet wheel, cog, planetary gear, tooth, pinion, escape wheel, spur wheel, wheel, sun gear


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