handwheel
Americannoun
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Origin of handwheel
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The activists also decorated the valve handwheel with sunflowers, and some attached themselves to the wheel with superglue and chains, the organisation said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2022
It began where a spoked handwheel, rusted red, had been pressed into the dirt as if it were a sundial, a clock, stopped.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2016
Gandhi himself devoted two hours each day to spinning his own yarn on a simple handwheel.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Every afternoon, Gandhi did an hour or two of spinning on his little handwheel, sometimes 400 yards at a sitting.
From Time Magazine Archive
One well-known type of power press is driven by a belt, and the downward pressure of the ram is controlled by a handwheel.
From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Franklin D. Jones
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