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spur-wheel
Also spur wheel.
[spur n.1]
A gear-wheel which has cogs or teeth on the periphery, projecting radially from the centre; a cog-wheel.
1731Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 10 The Spur Wheel. 1764J. Ferguson Lect. 78 A cog or spur-wheel may be placed upon each side of the water-wheel. 1805Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. xiv, On the axle of this water-wheel is fixed a large spur-wheel..of 160 cogs. 1861Smiles Engineers III. 97 The power of the two cylinders was combined by means of spurwheels. 1884W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron xi. 215 A spur-wheel, gearing into a pinion which is connected with a train of gearing driven by a small steam-engine.
fig.1870Mrs. J. H. Riddell Austin Friars iv, Love sets in motion the spur-wheel which turns all the other wheels of existence. |