wheelwork
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wheelwork
Example Sentences
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In the first place, the work of the Constituent Assembly was not principally to perpetuate this wheelwork of useless royalty, placed out of complaisance to the people's eyes, in machinery which did not regulate it.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.
This it is which makes the water run; this it is which enables the running water to move the wheelwork inserted into its channel.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
Eliphaz nodded his head, whirring his wheelwork louder.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
A small carriage geared to the wheelwork traversed its length, carrying electromagnetic signals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
A curious wheelwork runs round its four outspread petals; and a chain of minute things, living and dead, is winding in and out of their curves into a gulf at the back of the flower.
From The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir
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