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cogwheel
[ kog-hweel, -weel ]
noun
- (not in technical use) a gearwheel, especially one having teeth of hardwood or metal inserted into slots.
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When he crawled out, with a greasy cogwheel in his hand, he was soaked with perspiration and his overalls were stained by oil.
Between the rails runs a third broad and massive rail provided with teeth, which gear with a cogwheel under the locomotive.
Remove washer on the short end of shaft, also the cogwheel if the shaft has cogs on both ends.
They have very powerful engines and a cogwheel arrangement, the line making a zigzag up the mountain-side.
There was a grinding crash, and a large cogwheel tore its way through the roof.
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