Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An axle which bends downward between the wheels for the purpose of lowering the bed of a wagon.
- noun In locomotives with inside cylinders, the driving-axle.
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Examples
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The steam-cocks and the force-pump, as also the bellows used for the purpose of quickening combustion in the furnace, were worked off the same crank-axle.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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The motion of the piston was transmitted to a separate crank-axle, from which, through the medium of spur-gear, the axle of the driving-wheel (which was mounted with a fly-wheel) derived its motion.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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