axle
Origin of axle
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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August 7, 2012
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.
The Chinese Fairy BookVarious
He looked more closely, and the axle of his cart had disappeared.
The Chinese Fairy BookVarious
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.
The Law-BreakersRidgwell Cullum
axle
- a bar or shaft on which a wheel, pair of wheels, or other rotating member revolves
Word Origin for axle
Word Origin and History for axle
"pole or pin upon which a wheel revolves," Middle English axel-, from some combination of Old English eax and Old Norse öxull "axis," both from Proto-Germanic *akhsulaz (cf. Old English eaxl, Old Saxon ahsla, Old High German ahsala, German Achsel "shoulder"), from PIE *aks- "axis" (see axis). Found only in compound axle-tree before 14c.