axle : Idioms & Phrases

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axle bar

  • noun an iron bar that serves as an axletree
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axle box

Ax"le box`
Definitions
  1. A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes.
  2. The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle. ✍ In railway construction, the axle guard, or pedestal, with the superincumbent weight, rests on the top of the box (usually with a spring intervening), and holds it in place by flanges. The box rests upon the journal bearing and key, which intervene between the inner top of the box and the axle.
Webster 1913

axle grease

  • noun a thick heavy grease used to lubricate axles
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axle guard

Ax"le guard`
Definitions
  1. The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.
Webster 1913

Blind axle

  • an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Knight.
Webster 1913

Crank axle

  • (Mach.), a driving axle formed with a crank or cranks, as in some kinds of locomotives.
Webster 1913

dead axle

  • noun an axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it
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Driving axle

  • noun the axle of a self-propelled vehicle that provides the driving power
    driving axle.
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  • the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive.
Webster 1913

live axle

  • noun the axle of a self-propelled vehicle that provides the driving power
    driving axle.
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Muley axle

  • (Railroad), a car axle without collars at the outer ends of the journals.
Webster 1913

Wheel and axle

  • noun hoist so arranged that a rope unwinding from a wheel is wound onto a cylindrical drum or shaft coaxial with the wheel
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  • (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle, and used for raising great weights, by applying the power to the circumference of the wheel, and attaching the weight, by a rope or chain, to that of the axle. Called also axis in peritrochio, and perpetual lever, the principle of equilibrium involved being the same as in the lever, while its action is continuous. See Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
Webster 1913