Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of the cog-wheel.
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Examples
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The slow movement in azimuth is given in like manner by rotating the rod _h'e'_, the lantern-wheel at the end of which turns a crown-wheel on whose axle is a pinion-wheel working in the teeth of the circle _c_.
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