rotaryadj.n.

1836 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 23 July 457/2 I rejoice that you have put, and are putting, Rotaries into Saw Mills, upon the Railroad.

1887 Harper's Mag. July 176/1 These compact [printing] machines, eight feet high, eight wide, and twenty long, are fast displacing the old rotaries.

1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 386/1 Only the big rotaries, driven by one or two big engines, will suffice to pierce the big drifts that so frequently occur.

1946 V. S. Ganderton in H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding xii. 153/1 Multi-colour rotaries and methods have been brought to a high degree of perfection.

1990 Which? Apr. 213/3 Hover mowers and most rotaries will leave a fringe of upright grass.

2007 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 15 Apr. iii. 17/1 Rotaries are only 50 to 75 percent as fuel-efficient as piston engines.

1911 P. P. Harris in National Rotarian Jan. 1/1 Rotary is entirely without precedent in the history of clubdom.

1921 Glasgow Herald 10 Feb. 9/4 Sir Harry Lauder..said Rotary was like the lamplighter who came into a dark street.

1927 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 37 281 Rotary International, Kiwanis, and various business clubs have the same sanction of exclusive membership that is possessed by the lodges.

1944 B. Johnson As much as I Dare 275 When the members of the Denver Rotary attend Eastern conventions they wear ten-gallon hats.

1963 Sat. Evening Post 9 Feb. 58 Once a mutual-aid society for Midwestern businessmen, Rotary busily promotes peace and good brotherhood on a global scale.

1999 National Trust Mag. Summer 6/1 Once again the National Trust will be working with Lions Clubs International, Rotary International..and Family Services Units.

1915 W. Hegemann Rep. on City Plan Oakland & Berkeley 82/1 More than twelve years ago Mr. William Phelps Eno of New York had evolved a system of handling traffic at the intersection of streets... By this so-called rotary system street collisions are prevented by compelling all traffic to go..around the center where the collision is likely to occur.]

1940 N. Bel Geddes Magic Motorways v. 91 Progress around the rotary is slow, for all cars have to weave from lane to lane and are slowed down by the cars feeding in ahead.

1966 Pub. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 81 ii. 11/1 In my lifetime I have seen the traffic circle of the Middle Atlantic States become the rotary of New England.

1976 ‘A. Cross’ Question of Max i. 15 She executed..several rotaries which seemed specifically designed to enable cars going in opposite directions to meet head-on.

1999 D. Mitchell Ghostwritten 398 Roofs, terraces, domes, water-towers, bridges, rotaries, ruins, statues with baleful eyes ruling seldom-visited squares.

1897 Photographic Times June 259/2 Fig. 2—The rotary camera.

1916 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 670/1 The rotary camera, which could take a picture about one and one-half inches square and had an oblique downward inclination, was in a hood above the rockets.

1938 M. L. Raney in Jrnl. Documentary Reprod. 1 23 A banker..wanted facsimiles of the depositors' checks. The Recordak Rotary camera employing 16 mm. safety film was the answer.

1974 G. G. Baker et al. Guide to Production of Microforms iii. 15 Some rotary cameras have been specially designed to accept continuous line-printout stationery.

1995 P. Wilson in Preserv. Microfilming (Nat. Library Austral.) ii. 49 After experiments were conducted at Kodak's headquarters in Rochester, New York, a rotary camera was built which could film 30 sheets of newspaper a minute.

2005 T. M. Gay Tris Speaker (2007) vi. 101 It took the rotary camera a couple of minutes to finish its left-to-right sweep. After the camera had moved past them, Speaker and Wood must have raced around the photographer's rear.

1851 Sci. Amer. 4 Oct. 36/4 Mr. C. Matrat..has invented and taken measures to secure a patent for an improvement on the horizontal rotary Clothes Drier.

1947 M. F. Cresso Journey into Fame 27 The very first week he made a rotary clothes-dryer for Pamela and finished a squirrel-cage for Dan.

1971 Guardian 10 Apr. 4/1 (advt.) Rotary clothes drier with 100 foot line.

2009 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 31 Mar. (Property) 22 There are two garden sheds and a rotary clothes drier.

1959 Rotarian Oct. 49/1 A miniature rotary clothes line.

1971 Country Gentlemen's Mag. May 222/2 Rotary Clothes Lines..offer more line space than the conventional fixed line.

1978 P. Porter Cost of Seriousness 3 A camera, an eye Of memory is recounting inches along from the pea-trellis, The cement-block fence, the rotary clothes-line.

1998 S. Dingo Dingo xxiv. 296 Some hanging one arm around the rotary clothes line, several items of washing still pegged, forgotten in all the sorrow.

1907 Chicago Tribune 19 Oct. 5/1 The Rotary Club, an organization of professional men.

1910 Chicago Record-Herald 10 June 2/4 ‘The National Association of Rotary Clubs will be one of the most powerful factors in the civic life of the nation,’ declared Paul P. Harris... ‘Its membership, limited to one man in each line of business,..fighting together in the seventeen largest cities of the country, will be able to win on about any proposition they undertake.’

1976 S. Wales Echo 25 Nov. 20/4 The Rotary Club of Cardiff run a Christmas bargain shop from Tuesday next to Saturday.

2001 S. Brett Death on Downs (2002) lxi. 322 At a Ladies' Night of the local Rotary Club, Barry Stillwell met the widow of another past president.

1891 U.S. Patent 458,870 3/1 A rotary converter connected with the main supply-circuit.

1950 Times Rev. Industry Sept. 25/1 One of the first three locomotives is to have a rotary converter set and d.c. motors.

2005 V. Smil Creating 20th Cent. ii. 86 The first rotary converter was patented in 1888 by another of Edison's former employees, Charles S. Bradley.

1877 U.S. Patent 188,483 1/2 One method is to take a sawed, sliced, or rotary-cut sheet of suitable width and thickness.

1922 A. H. A. Rolle Forest Products (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census) i. 44/1 The rotary-cut method..is employed to a greater extent than any other in the manufacture of veneers.

1980 M. Frayn Make & Break i, in Plays: One (1985) 258 Or, if you want a painted wood finish, we can do rotary-cut birch at a very competitive price.

2005 Sunday Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 2 Jan. 75 Each is made from nine layers of moulded, rotary-cut veneer.

1799 Repertory of Arts 10 303 Similar effects may be produced..by a rotary cutter.

1850 Sci. Amer. Feb. 182/2 [The board is] bent and presented with a concave surface to the operation of the rotary cutter planing cylinder.

1892 P. N. Hasluck Milling Machines 1 Milling is a term now generally understood as meaning the shaping of metals with rotary cutters.

1936 Archit. Rev. 80 180/3 If you produce your veneers in any required size by the rotary cutter..you superimpose something on your materials which is not natural to them.

1973 Materials & Technol. VI. i. 85 The handling of veneers as they are produced by the rotary cutters varies from factory to factory.

2006 Quilter's Newslet. Mag. June 33/3 The block was made using only a ruler and rotary cutter.

1863 Brit. Farmer's Mag. Jan. 47/2 This..most useful application of the principle of rotary cutting [sc. a horse-clipping machine with blades on a rotating cylinder].

1927 E. V. Knight & M. Wulpi Veneers & Plywood xvii. 148 There are four ways of converting logs into veneer... If these are to be arranged according to volume of production, rotary cutting will easily stand at the head of the list.

2001 K. Guerrier Encycl. Quilting & Patchwork Techniques 40/2 The introduction of rotary cutting has made this very easy by eliminating much of the time spent in cutting patches.

1846 London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf. 27 170 The traversing as well as the up and down movements of the rotary drill.

1901 C. Prelini & C. S. Hill Tunneling 22 The advantages claimed for rotary drills in comparison with percussion drills.

1931 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 20/2 Diesel engines and electric motors whirl rotary drills with incredible ease and smoothness.

2003 News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington) (Nexis) 21 June e1 To attract birds, Taylor used a rotary drill to cut dimples in stones. Rain fills the holes and brings in the birds.

1799 Repertory of Arts 10 6 I construct the rotary engine of Mr. Watt..so as that it shall act with double power, and without the necessity of a heavy fly-wheel.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 139/1 The expansive principle would not answer for rotary or double engines.

1909 Flying: Why & Wherefore x. 91 The recent successes of the seven-cylinder rotary Gnome engine.

1968 S. E. Ellacott Hist. Everyday Things in Eng. 1914–68 xii. 182 The Wankel rotary engine..was on show at Earl's Court in October 1967.

2005 Which? Feb. 23/2 Mazda's rotary engine was a big influence on buying for half the owners—mainly because it was ‘different’.

1908 Commerc. Vehicle Mar. 64/2 To finish with these questions of suspension we shall lastly mention the disposition adopted on the Jenatzy Lelena and on the Burlat rotary-engined vehicles.

1973 Times 28 June 31/2 The Mazda RX3, now the cheapest rotary-engined car at £1,615 in Britain.

2003 J. H. Morrow Great War v. 189 The rotary-engined Camel, although its instability posed a grave danger to novice pilots, offered unsurpassed maneuverability to its aviators.

1847 U.S. Patent 5,290 The combination of one or more of the cross-pieces..and their rods or other equivalents with the rotary hoes.

1930 W. L. Burlison & A. W. Nolan Farm Crop Projects i. 60 (caption) The rotary hoe is a first-class tool for cultivating young corn.

2001 Marysville (Ohio) Jrnl.-Tribune 9 May 8/2 The rotary hoe provides little incorporation of herbicide, but can effectively eliminate..weeds.

1890 Jrnl. Soc. Estate Clerks of Wks. 1 132/2 Where machinery is used it is necessary to keep it in constant motion, and, hence, a rotary kiln or series of kilns, worked in rotation..is necessary.]

1893 Proc. Engineers' Club Philadelphia 10 219 The old cement kiln has been in use in this country for the last twenty years, and the rotary kiln has been made a success only about three years ago.

1922 E. C. Eckel Cements, Limes, & Plasters (ed. 2) xxxi. 420 All American and Canadian Portland-cement plants are now equipped with rotary kilns.

2009 Brantford (Ontario) Expositor (Nexis) 23 June d13 Metal is..removed and recycled, while the remaining product goes into a rotary kiln.

1883 Wheel World Mar. 185 The ‘Orbi-cycle’, a rotary-motioned front steerer.

1848 Debow's Rev. Apr. 361 The right half of each disk presents a different color from the left half, because the rotary power of the sugar has caused the pencil of polarised light to deviate to the right.

1953 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 39 60 We report on some complementary studies concerning..the optical rotary power..in both hemoglobins and globins.

1799 W. Tatham Polit. Econ. Inland Navigation, Irrigation, & Drainage 406 The patented rotary pump by Medhurst will here claim particular attention.

1907 Pop. Mech. Sept. 1013/1 A simple rotary pump is constructed on the principle of creating a vacuum in a rubber tube and so causing water to rise to fill the vacuum.

2007 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 17 Aug. For rapid turnarounds the rotary pump sucks in water at 1000 litres a minute.

1857 W. R. Wilde Catal. Antiq. Mus. Royal Irish Acad. 104 When we consider the immense length of time that all nations acquainted with the use of corn must have known how to work the rotary quern, this must be indeed an implement of extreme antiquity.

1925 Times 30 June 13/3 A few saddle querns have been uncovered and two pieces of the rotary quern.

2003 Britannia 34 153 These are characteristic of Sussex flat-topped-style rotary querns and are thought to be Iron Age or early Roman in date.

1867 U.S. Patent 71,158 1 An indicator to show the position of the circuit-closer in a rotary switch.

1912 Electrician & Mechanic 24 370/2 The rotary switch controls one light at a time.

2001 Log Home Living Dec. 81/1 Dimmers..are controlled with touch, slide or rotary switches.

1856 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 1 Feb. 169/2 Either ploughs or rotary tillers are used, or both.

1917 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 205/2 (caption) The rotary tiller plows and pulverizes the soil, weeds and roots in one operation.

2009 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 June e3 Use a rotary tiller to break up the dirt if the area is too large or the soil too hard to dig with a shovel.

1845 F. W. Simms Treat. Principal Math. Drawing Instruments (ed. 2) (advt. section in end matter) E. M. Clarke's List 4 Self-acting Slotting Machines, with Transverse Slides and Rotary Table.

1900 Machinery May 287/1 The machine is supplied with a rotary table 22″ in diameter having automatic feed in either direction.

1906 B. Redwood Treat. Petroleum (ed. 2) I. 289 The lower end of the drilling-rod or casing with the bit attached is passed through the rotary table.

1997 Metalworking Production June 17/2 An angle table with an integrated rotary table is also available, maximising flexibility for five-sided machining of small parts.

2006 M. S. Raymond & W. L. Leffler Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Lang. v. 92 The kelly bushing is firmly attached to the rotary table during drilling but is pulled out of the way..before any drill pipe is taken out of the hole.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 14 Aug. 10/2 A new machine, the Gyropter, or rotary-wing flying machine.

1958 Times 1 Mar. 7/3 A company engaged in manufacturing rotary wing aircraft is seeking permission to operate a base which would consist of a small platform built over the Thames.

2000 H. W. Thistle & J. W. Barry in C. D. Whiteman Mountain Meteorol. xiv. 280 The wake from a rotary-wing aircraft (helicopter) is a combination of a hover wake and a vortex pair.

1900 Massillon (Ohio) Independent 11 Oct. Carl Brown..has invented a flying machine which he calls a rotary winged wheel machine.

1939 Science 8 Dec. Suppl. 11/2 Rotary winged aircraft of the autogiro or helicopter type will usher in the third stage of growth in man's conquest of the air.

2001 C. Chant Air War in Gulf 1991 94/2 The Iraqi army's large armoured force..received special attention from the fixed- and rotary-winged aircraft.