·noun An axis; as, the sun's axle.
II. Axle ·noun The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
III. Axle ·noun A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an Axletree.
·- The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle. II. Axle box ·- A bushing in the ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·- The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in...
The two cross-pieces of a gun-carriage, fixed across and under the fore and hinder parts of the chee...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A well-known mechanical power, to which belong all turning or wheel machines, as cranes, capstans, w...