axle

[ UK /ˈæksə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈæksəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a shaft on which a wheel rotates
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How To Use axle In A Sentence

  • Going into the large yard, he cut two oaken wedges, took a new wheel, and drove a wedge firmly into one end of its axle-box. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
  • Woe slipped into the wheel; the merchant caught up the oaken wedge, and drove it into the axle-box from the other side. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
  • According to one homemade combinable multi-axle trailer's steering system, the calculation in the paper proves this design method is reasonable and practicable.
  • The nut on the end of the axle holds on the wheels, and the inside of the bearings are always in contact with the axle.
  • Optional transport kit includes quick attach drawbar and axle for Public Highways.
  • The older travellers were certainly not blasés; they seemed to find pleasure and beauty wherever they looked: Ca da Mosto (1455), visiting the Senegal, detected in this graveolent substance, fit only for wheel-axles, a threefold property, that of smelling like violets, of tasting like oil of olives, and tinging victuals like saffron, with a colour still finer. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
  • There will be components like axles, differentials, for certain products that are very similar in architecture to ours.
  • To unscrew the casing is to throw open such a Pandora's Box of nuts and springs, axles, ratchets and governors as to confound all attempts to recapture them.
  • Craig – That the black Civic is buried to the axles in asphalt? cmholm Says: Matthew Yglesias » Requests Thread
  • Indeed, the chassis and the wheel axle were specially designed to withstand such speed.
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