Word Meanings - COUNTERSHAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.

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• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SHAFTMAN; SHAFTMENT
  A measure of about six inches.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• SHAFT
  A rod at the end of a heddle. A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam
• MOTION
  1. To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat. 2. To propose; to move. I want friends to motion such a matter. Burton.
• SHAFTED
  Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures. (more info) 1. Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.
• INTERMEDIATELY
  In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.
• INTERMEDIATE
  Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state , the state or condition of the soul
• FACTORY
  1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke. 2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. W. Guthrie.
• MACHINE
  1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a
• MACHINERY
  1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• WAY SHAFT
  A rock shaft.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• SATISFACTORY
  1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• OLFACTORY
  Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ , an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• AIR SHAFT
  A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• ROCK SHAFT
  A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and