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axle
Part of Speech: noun
Results: 3
Examples of usage:
- The parson took off his coat, helped raise the wagon- body so the axle could be blocked, and aided in getting on another wheel in place of the broken one. - "The Heart of Canyon Pass", Thomas K. Holmes.
- The slow, jolly life of England on either side of the high road turned leisurely as a wagon- wheel on its axle, while between hedgerows, past farm hamlets, church- towers and through the cobbled streets of market towns, he had sped and rattled with Collingwood's dispatch in his sealed case. - "News from the Duchy", Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
- See, there's a drivin' axle, such as you saw forged by the big hammer, being turned now, and cut to shape and size by the same sort of machine that you saw cuttin' the tyres. - "The Iron Horse", R.M. Ballantyne.