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Same as Escapement, 3.

The common recoil escapement.

Way of escape; vent. [R.] An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot.

treat, etc. -- Beat of a watch, or clock, the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of beat, according as the strokes is at equal or unequal intervals.

nder takes up the pulp and delivers it in a continuous sheet to the dryers. -- Cylinder escapement. See Escapement. -- Cylinder glass. See Glass. -- Cylinder mill. See Roller mill. -- Cylinder press. See Press.

o the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation. Deadbeat escapement. See under Escapement.

fectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.

Double; twofold. Duplex escapement, a peculiar kind of watch escapement, in which the scape-wheel has two sets of teeth. See Escapement. -- Duplex lathe, one for turning off, screwing, and surfacing, by means of two cutting tools, on opposite sides of the piece operated upon. -- Duplex pumping engine, a steam pump in…

a safety valve. See under Relief, and Safety. -- Escape wheel (Horol.), the wheel of an escapement.

In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper. Grove. Grasshopper engine, a steam engine having a working beam with its fulcrum at one end, the steam cylinder at the other end, and the connecting r…

ound lever, a machine consisting of two or more levers acting upon each other. -- Lever escapement. See Escapement. -- Lever jack. See Jack, n., 5. -- Lever watch, a watch having a vibrating lever to connect the action of the escape wheel with that of the balance. Universal lever, a machine formed by a combination o…

(Gunnery), an instrument for measuring the force of the recoil of a firearm. -- Recoil escapement See the Note under Escapement.

See under Escapement.

the wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.