单词 | pinwheel |
释义 | pinwheeln.adj. A. n. 1. a. A cogwheel whose teeth are small pins set into the rim; (Clockmaking) a wheel in the striking train of a clock in which pins are set to lift the hammer; (also) the escape wheel of a pinwheel escapement (see Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of nut1428 peise1428 plumbc1450 Jack1498 clockwork1516 larum1542 Jack of the clockhouse1563 watch-wheel1568 work1570 plummeta1578 Jack of the clock1581 snail-cam1591 snail-work1591 pointer1596 quarter jack1604 mainspring1605 winder1606 notch-wheel1611 fusee1622 count-wheel1647 jack-wheel1647 frame1658 arbor1659 balance1660 fuse1674 hour-figure1675 stop1675 pallet1676 regulator1676 cock1678 movement1678 detent1688 savage1690 clock1696 pinwheel1696 starred wheel1696 swing-wheel1696 warning-wheel1696 watch1696 watch-part1696 hoop-wheel1704 hour-wheel1704 snail1714 step-wheel1714 tide-work1739 train1751 crutch1753 cannon pinion1764 rising board1769 remontoire1774 escapement1779 clock jack1784 locking plate1786 scapement1789 motion work1795 anchor escapement1798 scape1798 star-wheel1798 recoil escapement1800 recoiling pallet1801 recoiling scapement1801 cannon1802 hammer-tail1805 recoiling escapement1805 bottle jack1810 renovating spring1812 quarter-boy1815 pin tooth1817 solar wheel1819 impulse-teeth1825 pendulum wheel1825 pallet arbor1826 rewinder1826 rack hook1829 snail-wheel1831 quarter bell1832 tow1834 star pulley1836 watch train1838 clock train1843 raising-piece1843 wheelwork1843 gravity escapement1850 jumper1850 vertical escapement1850 time train1853 pin pallet1860 spade1862 dead well1867 stop-work1869 ringer1873 strike-or-silent1875 warning-piece1875 guard-pin1879 pendulum cock1881 warning-lever1881 beat-pin1883 fusee-piece1884 fusee-snail1884 shutter1884 tourbillion1884 tumbler1884 virgule1884 foliot1899 grasshopper1899 grasshopper escapement1899 trunk1899 pin lever1908 clock spring1933 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > others pinwheel1825 reducing gear1872 reduction gearing1891 slip-gear1897 hypoid1935 1696 W. Derham Artific. Clock-maker i. 5 In 16 or 30 hour Clocks, this [sc. the First Wheel] is commonly the Pin-Wheel; in 8 Day pieces, the Second-Wheel is commonly the Pin-Wheel. ?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 276 This wheel, thus with pins, is called the striking-wheel, or pin-wheel. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 496 This single wheel serves the purpose of count-wheel, pin-wheel, detent-wheel, and the fly-wheel. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1707/2 Pin-wheel, a contrate wheel in which the cogs are pins set into the disk. 1984 Antiquarian Horology Dec. 105 (advt.) Clock... 30 days, pinwheel, knife suspension. b. In leather-making: a revolving circular box or drum with wooden pins projecting from the inner surface, in which hides are washed, softened, or (in later use also) measured. Cf. pin mill n. at pin n.1 Compounds 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > equipment for softening hides or leather > vat or receptacle layer1797 softening machine1875 soak1876 stock1882 milla1884 pinwheel1885 wheel vat1885 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 275/2 The hides next pass into a queer-looking contrivance known as a ‘pin-wheel’, a stout circular wooden box, in which they are churned about in warmish water, dropping upon stout wooden pins attached to the circumference. 1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 350 The skins are placed with this solution in the so-called ‘pin-wheel’, the last solution softening the skins and imparting the final tanning action to the same. 1999 Leather (Nexis) July 4 Satra carries out the measurements using a mechanical pinwheel machine housed in a standard atmosphere to ensure all leathers are conditioned and measured under the same conditions. 2. a. A spirally wound, revolving firework resembling a Catherine wheel, esp. a small one. Chiefly North American. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > rotating or Catherine wheel firewheel1607 wheel1629 sun1741 sun wheel1749 Catherine wheel1761 pinwheel1765 spur-fire1765 cartwheel1840 1765 R. Jones New Treat. Artific. Fireworks vi. 244 Of Pin Wheels... These wheels may be fired on a large pin, and held in the hand with safety. 1852 Sci. Amer. 6 Nov. 64/4 This book teaches the whole art of making Fireworks—sky rockets, wheels &c., in short all the kinds of fires, from that of old Greece down to the simplest ‘pin wheel’. 1869 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 629 The pretty little catherine-wheel, or pin-wheel. 1907 St. Nicholas July 856/2 The crackers snap a noisy tune. The pinwheels splutter round. 1920 W. D. Howells Vacation of Kelwyns 165 The pin-wheels caught and hung fizzing instead of revolving with a coruscation of sparks. 1994 Amer. Spectator Sept. 54/3 At nightfall, we set off lots of bottle rockets, Dixie screamers, pinwheels, black widows, [etc.]. b. U.S. A toy or garden ornament with revolving paper or cloth sails attached to one end of a stick; = windmill n. 3b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > windmill windmill1557 whirl-jack1653 whirligig1659 pinwheel1869 1869 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 281/2 Boys and girls..will sometimes contrive what they call pin-wheels—bits of stick crossed, tipped with little squares of paper, and then attached to another stick with a large pin, so that they will whirl around when carried swiftly against a breeze. 1880 Godey's Lady's Bk. Apr. 363 A tiny girl took great delight in making these toys out of various colored papers..and the group of little children rushing along with the gay pin-wheels in each hand, formed a pleasant incident of a bright, breezy afternoon. 1910 J. C. Lincoln Depot Master viii. 170 Simeon spun around, as he said afterwards, ‘like a young one's pinwheel’. 1930 M. O. Wright My N.Y. 146 A man hawking toy balloons, pinwheels and fans, pushed one of the latter square into Uncle Charles' face. 1976 New Yorker 15 Nov. 12/1 A single piece of abstract sculpture that might have been inspired by a child's pinwheel except that it is ten feet across. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June i. 31/2 In the arts-and-crafts hut, others made pinwheels and finger puppets. B. adj. Shaped like a pinwheel; spiral. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical > spiral spirala1639 gyrous1688 planorbiform1856 planorboid1856 pinwheel1887 1887 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Aug. 6/2 (heading) Crochet Pin Wheel Lace. 1896 F. M. Farmer Boston Cooking-School Cook Bk. v. 71 Fruit rolls (Pin Wheel Biscuit). 1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 114/1 An arrangement of the hair in which it is coiled around a central point to make a pinwheel bang, pinwheel puff, etc. 1975 New Yorker 27 Oct. 39/2 My sons have nothing but love for the grandma who makes them pinwheel cookies. 2004 Beverage Industry (Nexis) 1 Jan. 28 Pallets are created by rotating the boxes into a pinwheel pattern, which is then rotated from layer to layer to create the necessary symmetry. Compounds pinwheel escapement n. Clockmaking an escapement in which semicircular pins set on the escape wheel at right angles to its plane of rotation give impulse to the pallets. ΚΠ 1873 Chambers's Encycl. V. 422/2 Other inventions, as the detached escapement, the pin-wheel escapement in various forms, and the gravity escapement..have not come into general use. 1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 196 Woodpecker escapement, form of pin wheel escapement in some early nineteenth century Austrian clocks. 1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Nov. k1 Galileo invented a pinwheel escapement, and worked on a pendulum clock but died before perfecting it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). pinwheelv.ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > other processes curry14.. shave1467 dress1511 slaughter1603 raise1607 scutch1688 chamois1728 braya1835 break1842 fellmonger1843 fire-cure1848 crimp1849 board1860 pebble1862 soft-board1878 sam1883 stock1883 nourish1884 buff1885 pinwheel1885 sammy1885 wheel1885 unlime1888 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 276/2 Hides.., after having been..pin-wheeled,..are put under a ‘scourer’. 2. intransitive. Originally U.S. To rotate in the manner of a pinwheel; to turn somersaults or whirl in the air; to move rapidly, as though on wheels. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > of wheel: operate [verb (intransitive)] > other actions ratchet1881 free-wheel1899 pinwheel1907 1907 Washington Post 15 Sept. 139 I pin-wheeled over to Sol's book, and Sol was in one of his roaring fits. 1922 Bee (Danville, Va.) 19 Sept. 6/2 He pinwheeled 'round just like a spoke Then hit the bottom. 1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 235/1 So he let fly at the nearer of them, and saw her tumble in the air, then pinwheel earthwards. 1976 W. Greatorex Crossover 188 Memories pin-wheeled through Pavel's mind. 1994 M. M. Smith Only Forward 353 Constable Perkins skidded right to the edge of the island and stood poised there for a moment, arms pinwheeling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1696v.1885 |
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