chain wheel

British  

noun

1. engineering a toothed wheel that meshes with a roller chain to transmit motion

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Example Sentences

Great for those of us with small hands and short arms, because you don't have to strain to shift the chain on to another chain wheel as you do with Shimano.

From The Guardian

A screw s, having journal bearing in the movable leg, screws through the nut n, and is connected to the upper screw by the chain c, which passes around a chain wheel provided on each screw, so that the movable leg moves in an upright position and the jaw faces stand parallel, no matter what the width of the work.

From Project Gutenberg

Generic Zocor "really created all sorts of new opportunities to find savings for clients by increasing generic penetration and transformed the PBMs into very important cogs in the pharmaceutical supply chain wheel," said Morningstar analyst Matthew Coffina.

From Reuters

Where the sunken garden had been filled in a wide stone well house, the like of which can be found at many of the farmhouses in the Harpeth Valley, had been built and a chain wheel and bucket drew up the water from the deep cistern, which was supplied with underground pipes from the south wing of the Poplars.

From Project Gutenberg