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of the work. Moxon. Swash plate (Mach.), a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.

An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial.

tc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves. --Tel`au*tog"ra*phist (#), n.…

two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.

The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill horse.

crew Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.

A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.

er, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.

The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.

An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs.

An instrument for determining the torque on a shaft, and hence the horse power of an engine, esp. of a marine engine of high power, by measuring the amount of twist of a given length of the shaft. Called also torsimeter, torsiometer, torsometer.

The shaft of a cart. [Prov. Eng.] De Quincey.

a cross, with two or more cross grooves intersecting at the center, used on the end of a shaft to transmit motion to another shaft not in line with the first.

e vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.

A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle. [Obs.] The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns. Sylvester.

A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.

A method of sinking through water-bearing ground, in which the shaft is lined with tubbing and provided with an air lock, work being proceeded with under air pressure.

A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft. Raymond.

A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear. With his truncheon he so rudely struck. Spenser.

That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.