pinions
小齿轮,齿轮,小行星,鸟类
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- : Machinery. a gear with a small number of teeth, especially one engaging with a rack or larger gear.a shaft or spindle cut with teeth engaging with a gear.
- : Metalworking. a gear driving a roll in a rolling mill.
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Rincon Mountain Wilderness skirts the boundary of Saguaro National Park with chimneys of towering rocks and hills spotted with pinions, all perfectly positioned to protect the park’s colossal cacti.
It is with our body as it is with a watch which indicates the hours, and which goes not if the spring or a pinion be broken.
The foam and the fangs and the flowers,The raving and ravenous rage Of a poet as pinion'd in powersAs a condor confined in a cage!
The man kicked him ferociously in the breast before the attacker managed to pinion the legs in his arms.
Clock-pinion; which may be used for either nicking, piecing, or squaring-off purposes.
Then draw a vertical line (A) midway between the marks of the line 2, and this will be the center of the main pinion.