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noun Machinery.
a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.
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Origin of Woodruff key
Apparently after the proper name
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Woodruff key
/ (ˈwʊdrʌf) /
noun engineering
a semicircular key restrained in a curved keyway in a shaft
Word Origin for Woodruff key
C19: named after the Woodruff Manufacturing Co, in Hartford, Connecticut, who first manufactured it in 1892
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