chain drive
noun
a driving mechanism transmitting power by means of an endless chain.
chain-driven
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a word derived from
chain drive.
Example Sentences
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But supply chain-driven price increases and a limited number of delivery vans will make it harder for them to ship flowers on the holiday this year.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
The invention of the “safety bicycle” with its chain-driven transmission in the 1890s led to one of the biggest bike crazes of all, but it couldn’t survive the advent of the automobile.
From The Verge ● Dec. 18, 2020
Morgan, the company specialized in cycle-cars: two-seat, tube-frame zeppelins with motorcycle engines in the front, with independent front suspension and a single chain-driven rear wheel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2016
For the next few years Autocar was a popular passenger make, sporting a propeller shaft at a time when most cars were chain-driven.
From Time Magazine Archive
On angle brackets rising obliquely from the fuselage were six large aluminium propellers, chain-driven by means of six 350-h.p. motors.
From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
