steering column
the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
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How to use steering column in a sentence
With difficulty I could still turn the shaft with my fingertips — about four millimeters of metal stuck out from the steering column — but it didn’t start the car.
Gene Weingarten: Don’t just fix the problem. Kluge it. | Gene Weingarten | May 13, 2021 | Washington PostThere’s another electronic box atop the steering column too.
Ford’s electric Mustang Mach-E is an important leap into the future | Dan Carney | February 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIts horn blared ceaselessly, jammed by the dead body of the driver, Henri Paul, pinioned on the steering column by the impact.
Tina Brown: No, Conspiracy Theorists, Princess Diana Was Not Murdered | Tina Brown | August 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe brakes are applied by a control system mounted on the steering column.
Motor Truck Logging Methods | Frederick Malcolm KnappShe climbed to her seat behind the steering column and turned to Thompson.
Burned Bridges | Bertrand W. Sinclair
British Dictionary definitions for steering column
(in a motor vehicle) the shaft on which a steering wheel is mounted and by which it is connected with the steering gear
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