| 单词 | gin wheel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgin wheel gin wheel n. (a) the wheel or windlass of a gin used for hoisting; cf. senses 8, 11; (b) (in a cotton gin) a wheel or cylinder of toothed metal discs or brushes; cf. gin saw n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > shear-legs or gin > drum of gin wheel1760 1760 G. Holland Let. Inhabitants Leics. 5 Also a new pit-frame and pullies; together with a gin wheel, and roof set up. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. vii. 248 Has..your half-alive avaricious Cotton-Law Lord, never seen one such?.. These are they, the elect of the world;..set to grind in darkness at its poor gin-wheel! 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers I. 323 The old methods of the gin-wheel and tub, and the chain pump had been tried. 1999 J. Y. Shakoor Civil Rights Childhood 72 Emmett was told to pick up the gin wheel and carry it to the river bank. 2005 tr. Planning & Installing Solar Thermal Syst. iv. 88 General steel scaffolding..can support hoist or gin wheel for lifting collector. < as lemmas |
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