| 单词 | pivot hole |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspivot hole pivot hole n. ΚΠ 1667 R. Hooke Doc. 21 Mar. in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1756) III. 159 Putting..the two other opposite pivots into the pivot-holes. 1773 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 77 My clock is in general of the plain kind, moving in brass pivot-holes, beating dead seconds, with the common steel paletts. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick I. xxviii. 196 Captain Ahab stood erect... He was every day visible to the crew; either standing in his pivot-hole, or seated upon an ivory stool. 1999 Clocks Dec. 34/1 The back pivot hole for the hands motionwork is the only one in the frame bars which is not brass bushed. Does any reader recognise this clock? < as lemmas |
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