| 释义 |
† menˈdoza Obs.
[? The (Spanish) surname of the inventor.]
In full mendoza wheel, one of the wheels of a spinning-mule.
1803Specif. Wood's Patent No. 2711. 2 The wheel G acts in the mendoza, called the drawing-out wheel. 1818Specif. of Eaton's Patent No. 4272. 4 When the carriage [of the spinning mule] is quite out the mendoza wheel O is disengaged from the pinion. 1836Ure Cotton Manuf. II. 158 The large horizontal bevel-wheel 12, called the mendoza. |