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(mechanics) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
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A shock absorber that uses an air chamber.
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A jacket with airtight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to make the wearer buoyant when swimming.
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A bar that is stressed to reduce roll (leaning to one side) in a car body during cornering.
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(nautical) A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
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As much as can be carried with one, or a pair, of arms
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(architecture) Alternative spelling of barge board. [A board fastened to the projecting gables of a roof to protect and hide other timbers.]
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The straight part or shank of an anchor.
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A form of industrial machine, usually power-operated, which mechanically lifts and inverts bins for the purpose of emptying them.
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The instrument cluster on a car or motorcycle.
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A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
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In logging, any of the larger logs chained together to create a floating boom.
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(obsolete) The winch of a crossbow.
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A rigid or stiffly flexible sheath used on some bicycles to turn a brake cable neatly around a corner.
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(engineering) The curved channel in which a breastwheel turns.
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An excavator having a series of bucket-shaped scoops on a rotating wheel or belt
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(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
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(military, nautical, slang) A ramming maneuver, that opens up the target ship like a tin can.
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A board, typically at the edge of a roof, that has a slope to divert rainwater.
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Alternative spelling of cap screw [A screw that is threaded along the entire length of the shaft and has a cap which is intended to rest against the side of the outermost material being screwed together when the screw has been screwed in to its maximum extent.]
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A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture to allow it to be moved.
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A man employed to operate a check valve.
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A cantilevered tool for installing or removing the engine block from a vehicle (also known as an engine crane or engine hoist)
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(rail transport, machinery) A brake shoe used to clean a wheel
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A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
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Alternative spelling of cranse iron [(nautical) a fitting on the end of a bowsprit of a sailing vessel to which the forestay is attached]
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A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
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(countable) A skill tester
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(construction) (This entry is a translation hub.)
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The area within which a crane operates or can move.
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(nautical) Synonym of cranse iron
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A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc..
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A device that is used for lifting and moving large objects.
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A device turned on a vertical axis by a handle or a winch, giving a circular motion to ore being washed.
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(automotive) A type of spare tire. The undersized spare wheel (tire and rim) provided by automotive manufacturers in lieu of a full-sized tire, for use in emergencies, when one of the regular ones can no longer be used.
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A cable, cord, or rope used to drag an object; specifically, the line of a dragline excavator that drags the bucket.
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(US) a shield, usually of plastic or metal, on a bicycle that protects the rider from mud or water
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Synonym of fireman's carry
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(US) A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level.
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Alternative form of flashboard [(US) A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level.]
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A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved.
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A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
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A large crane mounted on a platform that usually runs back and forth on parallel tracks astride the work area.
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A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
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A kind of hoisting winch.
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An appliance for raising heavy weights; a jack.
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Equipment for any kind of labour.
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Alternative form of headrace [The part of a millrace that brings water to the millwheel.]
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Alternative form of Hills Hoist [(Australia) A rotary clothes line with adjustable height by means of a rotating handle.]
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An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a warehouse.
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A horizontal guard plank along the truss of a highway bridge, at the height of a wagon-wheel hub.
adj
Between blades (typically, of a turbine)
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A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
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Alternative form of jackscrew [A jack (mechanical lifting device) which is operated by turning a leadscrew.]
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(often attributive) A machine that utilizes jacks or hydraulic lifts.
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A jack (mechanical lifting device) which is operated by turning a leadscrew.
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(aviation, slang) The lock pin used to help secure the Jesus nut of some helicopters.
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The projecting arm of a crane.
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(mining) A jib's (arm of a crane) head.
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A lever-dolly (similar to a crowbar) for moving heavy apparatus.
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(engineering) A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.
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A compact crane whose boom articulates near the middle.
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A telescopic platform used to support laboratory glassware or other equipment
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Scraps of metal used to fire at an enemy in naval warfare.
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(in the plural) The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
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A naval mine attached to its target by magnets.
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(nautical, orienteering, search and rescue) A firearm designed to shoot a rope across a distance, usually used to pass lines from one ship to another.
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A person employed to walk along an oil or gas pipeline in search of leaks and other problems.
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Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.
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(US) the transport of timber down a river to a sawmill as a floating raft
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The tall column in a grain elevator that raises and lowers the buckets.
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A small crane that can be used inside a building being constructed
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A crane of varying size and load capacity, usually mounted on road wheels, but sometimes on crawler tracks, which can move to wherever it is required.
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A tackle-block over which a hoisting rope is run.
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A derrickman's work platform.
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A crane or derrick mounted on a single tower
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The drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, etc.
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A tubular bumper running below the doors along the side of four-wheeled vehicle, in place of a running board.
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(obsolete) A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants.
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A crane mounted on a movable truck.
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(mechanics) A windlass with many pulleys and truckles
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(aviation, nautical, humorous) In military or other social organizations involving aircraft or boats, a mythical substance supposedly used to wash propellers.
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Alternative form of propeller head [The hub of a propeller]
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Alternative spelling of propeller head [The hub of a propeller]
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Alternative spelling of propeller head [The hub of a propeller]
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A device that is placed over or behind the propeller of a boat to deflect the vessel's propwash downward. The result is a very effective form of agitation dredging. PDUs are primarily used by salvors to remove mud or sand from shallow water shipwrecks.
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A shell containing one or more sheaves, the whole forming a pulley.
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A walkway or short, low footbridge over wet ground constructed by laying one or more planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground, also called duck boards, bog boards, or bog bridge.
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A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
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The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
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A flooring or framework on which a rick is made.
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A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
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(woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
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A machine used to sweep streets
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A frame containing rollers as part of a conveyer system.
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(UK, historical) The bar in a carriage to which the traces are attached; a whiffletree.
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(engineering, dated) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
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A hoisting gear arranged so as to prevent its load being thrown precipitately down in case of accident.
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In deepwell boring, the post which supports the walking beam of the apparatus.
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(automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
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(nautical) A ship's propeller.
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Alternative form of screwhead. [The head of a screw, into which a screwdriver fits.]
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A type of propeller in which the blades are angled to produce a motion similar to threading a screw. Also, the angle of the blades on such a propeller.
adj
Fitted with a screw cap.
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(nautical) a plug used to close a scupper hole
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A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
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An inclined ramp used to transport skip cars carrying iron ore, coke, or limestone, inside a blast furnace.
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(by extension from the previous) Any ironworker working at a height.
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(automotive, UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
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A metal rack or cage consisting of support pillars with adjustable bars and hooks, using for supporting a barbell during heavy weightlifting exercises.
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One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
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(historical) An excavating machine designed to effect a shovelling action through steam power.
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(engineering) A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
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(engineering) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.
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(engineering, obsolete) A particular system of fixed and movable pulleys; a tackle with a set of sheaves in a fixed block and another set in a movable block to which the weight is attached.
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A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
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A vehicle with a telescopically extensible boom, which can be fitted with various lifting or manipulative devices such as pallet forks or grab.
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The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
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A type of firetruck, an aerial ladder truck that is articulated with a tillerman's position to steer the rear of the trailer into tight spaces.
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A massive crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting crab, the whole supported by a carriage mounted on track rails. It is used especially for setting heavy masonry blocks for piers, breakwaters, etc.
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A person occupied chaining up logs to prevent them from rolling off during transport on railroad cars and trucks.
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A crane, consisting of a balanced beam erected on top of a tall metal (normally self-erecting) tower, used in the construction of tall buildings
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A crane fixed on a carriage which may be moved on rails.
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A mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
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(obsolete, rare) A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).
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(UK) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
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A machine with three pulleys which act together to raise great weights.
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(UK, dialect, Scotland, obsolete or historical) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar.
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The drumhead of a capstan, especially the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the same axis.
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A tractor with one axle, self-powered and self-propelled, which can pull and power various farm implements such as a trailer, cultivator or harrow, a plough, or various seeders and harvesters.
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An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flight.
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The trade of a wheelwright.
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(nautical) A wheel that can be adjusted so as to revolve either with or on the shaft of a capstan.
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A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hauling on a rope or cable.
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(agriculture) In a mechanical harvester, a board which shelters harvested grain and prevents it being blown away by the wind.
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Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
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Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper.
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(military) A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range.
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A type of corkscrew having two levers on either side of the worm, so that the cork is removed by pushing the levers together after the worm has been driven into the cork.
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