英语词汇“wheel、lock”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

wheel-lock

释义

ˈwheel-lock
[f. wheel n. + lock n.²]
1. A form of gun-lock in which the powder was fired by the friction of a small wheel (wound up with a spring) against a piece of iron pyrites. Also attrib.
1670Cotton Espernon. i. iv. 181 The wheel-lock of a Pistol, ready wound up.1677Plot Oxfordsh. 71 These..have been much used for Carabines and Pistols, whil'st Wheel-locks were in fashion.1821Edgeworth Mem. (ed. 2) I. 279 Guns,..some with old match-locks,..and others with wheel⁓locks.1860Hewitt Anc. Armour III. 589 Their [sc. German Reiters' or pistoliers'] characteristic arm, the wheel⁓lock pistol.1904Tylor Anthropol. i. 17 The match-lock led up to the wheel-lock, and that again to the flint-lock musket.
2. A form of letter-lock (see letter n.¹ 9) with a series of wheels or disks upon the edges of which the letters were inscribed.
1875Knight Dict. Mech.
3. a. (See quot.)
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Wheel-lock, a wagon-lock, to retard the revolution of the wheels in descending a hill.
b. = lock n.² 15.
1927Observer 20 Feb. 21/3 The majority of our fire⁓fighting appliances are not provided with adequate wheel-locks.

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