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king-bolt
ˈking-bolt A main or large bolt in a mechanical structure. a. An iron rod in a roof, used instead of a king-post. b. A vertical bolt passing through the axle of a carriage or railway car, and forming a pivot on which the axle swings in taking curves. c. A bolt from which the cage of a mining shaft i...
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king | Etymology of king by etymonline
king (adj.). king (n.) applied, at first in natural history, to species deemed remarkably big or dominant, such as king crab (1690s); the U.S. king snake (1737), which attacks other snakes and is regarded especially as the enemy of the rattlesnake; king cobra (1888). In marketing, king-size is from 1939, originally of cigarettes. A king-bolt (1825) was the large bolt connecting the fore part ...
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king-pin
ˈking-pin † 1. The tallest (central) pin in the game of kayles.1801 Strutt Sports & Past. iii. vii. 239 One of them..is taller than the rest, and this, I presume, was the king-pin. 2. = king-bolt. Hence fig., that which holds together any complex system or arrangement; also, the most important or ou...
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pintle
pintle (ˈpɪnt(ə)l) Forms: 1–7 pintel, 4–5 pyntyl, 5– ell(e, pentill, 5–6 pyntil, -ill, -yll, pintil, 6–7 -ill, 7–8 -ell, (7–9 pintail); 6– pintle. [OE. pintel (-el perh. dim.: see -le). Cf. OFris. pint, penth, Dan. dial. pint, pintel, LGer., Du., Ger. pint penis; also cuckoo-pint. Ulterior history u...
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king
▪ I. king, n. (kɪŋ) Forms: 1 cyning, (-incg), kyning, cining, cyniᵹ, 1–2 cyng, cing, (1 cyncg, ching), 1–6 kyng, 4–6 kynge, (4 kinge, kin, 5 kynnge, kink, keng), 2– king. [A Com. Teut. word: OE. cyning = OFris. kin-, ken-, koning, OS. kuning (MDu. coninc, Du. koning, MLG. kon(n)ink), OHG. chun-, kun...
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truss
▪ I. truss, n. (trʌs) Forms: 3–8 trusse, (4–6 trosse, trus, 5 truse, Sc. troiss), 9 (in sense 5) tross, 7– truss. β. Sc. 5 turss, 5–7 turs, 7 turse, tirrs. [a. F. trousse, OF. also torse, trusse, tourse (12–15th c. in Godef.), Prov. trossa, Sp. troxa, Pg. trouxa; according to Scheler and Hatz.-Darm....
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tap
▪ I. tap, n.1 (tæp) Forms: 1 tæppa, 4 teppe, 5–7 tappe, 7 tapp, 5– tap. [Com. Teutonic: OE. tæppa (wk. masc.) = OLG. *tappo (MDu., MLG., LG. tappe, EFris. tappe, tap, Du. tap, NFris. tâp), OHG. zapfo (MHG. zapfe, Ger. zapfen), ON. tappi (Sw. tapp, Da. tap):—OTeut. *tappon-, orig. a tapering cylindri...
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