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trammel wheel

trammel wheel noun: a circular plate or a cross, with two or more cross grooves intersecting at the centre, used on the end of a shaft to transmit motion to another shaft not in line with the first.

Noun

trammel wheel (plural trammel wheels)

  1. A circular plate or a cross, with two or more cross grooves intersecting at the centre, used on the end of a shaft to transmit motion to another shaft not in line with the first.

Forms of trammel wheel

pluraltrammel wheels

Questions about trammel wheel

What does trammel wheel mean?
Trammel wheel means a circular plate or a cross, with two or more cross grooves intersecting at the centre, used on the end of a shaft to transmit motion to another shaft not in line with the first.
What part of speech is trammel wheel?
Trammel wheel is a noun.
What is the plural of trammel wheel?
The plural of trammel wheel is trammel wheels.

Words near trammel wheel in the dictionary

  1. tramman
  2. trammans
  3. trammed
  4. trammel
  5. trammel of Archimedes
  6. trammel wheel
  7. trammel wheels
  8. trammeled
  9. trammeler
  10. trammelers
  11. trammeling

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