Handwheel
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake, or to allow fine adjustment, as of a set screw.
"Front damper doors on each hopper and the back damper door of the centre hopper are opened and closed by screw gear worked from a handwheel on the fireman's side of the cab."
- 2 control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated wordnet
- 3 a wheel worked by hand wordnet
Example
More examples"Front damper doors on each hopper and the back damper door of the centre hopper are opened and closed by screw gear worked from a handwheel on the fireman's side of the cab."
Etymology
From hand + wheel.
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