lever escapement

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noun Horology.

an escapement in which a pivoted lever, made to oscillate by the escape wheel, engages a balance staff and causes it to oscillate.

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Origin of lever escapement

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby lever escapement

Leven, lever, lever action, leverage, leveraged buyout, lever escapement, leveret, Leverhulme, Leverkusen, Leverrier, Levertov

How to use lever escapement in a sentence

The correct delineation of the lever escapement is a very important matter.
An Analysis of the Lever Escapement|H. R. Playtner
We will now take up the club-tooth form of the lever escapement.
Watch and Clock Escapements|Anonymous
We will now, with our improved drawing instruments, resume the consideration of the ratchet-tooth lever escapement.
Watch and Clock Escapements|Anonymous
The drawing of a ratchet-tooth lever escapement of eight and one-half degrees pallet action will now be resumed.
Watch and Clock Escapements|Anonymous

We shall next consider the ratchet-tooth lever escapement with circular pallets and ten degrees of pallet action.
Watch and Clock Escapements|Anonymous