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contrate

American  
[kon-treyt] / ˈkɒn treɪt /

adjective

Horology.

  1. (of a gear) having teeth at right angles to the plane of rotation.

Etymology

Origin of contrate

First recorded in 1680–90; contra- 1 ( def. ) + -ate 1

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Snead knows he should shrug it off with a casual French phrase and contrate on his game.

From Golf Digest • May 11, 2020

Pin′-wheel, a contrate wheel in which the cogs are pins set into the disc: a form of firework constructed to revolve rapidly while burning.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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