crank-shaft

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• Crank

  ·noun Sick; infirm. II. Crank ·noun Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage. III. Crank ·noun ...

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• crank

  1) Gin and water; also, brisk, pert. 2) The falling sickness. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• crank

  merry. Kent. Also a boat or ship over-masted, apt to roll and in danger of oversetting ; a common se...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• crank

  , or crank-sided. A vessel, by her construction or her stowage, inclined to lean over a great deal...

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• Shaft

  ·noun A rod at the end of a heddle. II. Shaft ·noun A pole, especially a Maypole. III. Shaft ·noun...

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• shaft

  A handle; as, a whip-shaft, the handle of a whip.--Jamieson, Scottish Dictionary. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• shaft

  a lead-mine, or coal-pit. North. ...

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• Bell crank

  ·- A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the ape...

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• counterfeit crank

  A general cheat, assuming all sorts of characters; one conterfeiting the falling sickness. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• crank-sided

  See crank ...

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• crank-hatches

  Are raised coamings on a steamer's deck, to form coverings for the cranks of the engines below. ...

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• crank-pin

  In steam machinery, it goes through both arms of the crank at their extremities; to this pin the con...

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• Air shaft

  ·- A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel. ...

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• Butt shaft

  ·- An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an <<Arrow>>. ...

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• Lay shaft

  ·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Layshaft>>. ...

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• Rock shaft

  ·- A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, — usually carrying levers by means...

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• Way shaft

  ·- A rock shaft. II. Way shaft ·- An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. ...

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• Shaft Alley

  See Shaft's Court. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• monkey-shaft

  n. «A shaft rising from a lowerto a higher level (as a rule perpendicularly), and differingfrom a b...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• butt-shaft

  , or butt-bolt An arrow without a barb, used for shooting at a butt. ...

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• intermediate shaft

  In a steamer, is the iron crank common to both engines. ...

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• main-shaft

  The principal shaft in machinery. ...

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• paddle-shaft

  The stout iron axis carrying the paddle-wheels, which revolves with them when keyed. ...

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• weigh-shaft

  In the marine-engine, the same as wiper-shaft. ...

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• wiper-shaft

  An application to the valve equipoise of a marine-engine: their journals or bearings lie in bushes, ...

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• shaft of a mine

  The narrow perpendicular pit by which the gallery is entered, and from which the branches of the min...

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