axle
[ak-suh l]
noun
Origin of axle
before 900; Middle English axel, Old English eaxl shoulder, crossbeam (in eaxle-gespann); cognate with Old Frisian ax(e)le, Old Saxon ahsla, Old High German ahsala shoulder (German Achsel), Old Norse ǫxl, Latin āla (< derivative of *akslā)
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Related Words for axle
gudgeon, shaft, pin, support, rod, stem, pole, stalk, pivot, spindle, axis, mandrel, arborExamples from the Web for axle
Contemporary Examples of axle
When we finally made it into the village, the axle on one of our trucks split in half.
This intricate sequence wrapped us around the axle more than once during design and testing in the years preceding launch.
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The success of the whole structure was extremely sensitive to the size of the axle.
Historical Examples of axle
Upon the axle of the winding pulley there is a break pulley, p.
And when he turned the corner, there lay the missing piece from the axle by the city wall.
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He looked more closely, and the axle of his cart had disappeared.
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And then he realized that the pear-tree which the bonze had chopped down must have been his axle.
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She released the jack under the axle, and the wheel dropped to the ground.
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axle
noun
Word Origin for axle
C17: from Old Norse öxull; related to German Achse; see axis 1
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