Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bare axis or cylinder with staves on it to move it round, but no drum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mach.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.
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- noun engineering A bare
axis orcylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without anydrum .
Etymologies
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Latin sucula ("a winch, windlass, capstan").
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