He even set up a carriage in the fulness of his vain-glory, though he nearly starved the horses which drew it; and, as the ungreased wheels groaned and screeched on the axle-trees, you would have thought you heard the souls of the poor debtors he was squeezing.

Your mother sold notions and axle-grease in an up-State general store up to the day she married.

A.The axles bear only against the top of the axle boxes, which are generally of brass; but a plate extends underneath the bearing, to prevent sand from being thrown upon it.

The axle guard of the leading wheels is formed of 3/4 plate bolted to the frame with angle iron guides.

A close investigation of the motor axle case shows that repair is possible.

An axle breaks, the returning line waits an hour for the other to cross, a sixty-foot pine log for the new railway bridge wedges fast in turning a corner and stops everythingyou must imagine them at it all day, sweating and swearing in all the dialects of the dual monarchyall night, with fagged horses and drivers dazed with sleep, in the blaze of a search-light reaching out over the river.

On this day also many Hungarian swineherds make fire by rotating a wheel round a wooden axle wrapt in hemp, and through the fire thus made they drive their pigs to preserve them from sickness.

" "That wooden axle outfit?"

[rotation of an automobile] spin-out. axis, axis of rotation, swivel, pivot, pivot point; axle, spindle, pin, hinge, pole, arbor, bobbin, mandrel; axle shaft; gymbal; hub, hub of rotation.

And e'en as, when a chariot-builder bends With practised skill his shafts of splintered fig, Hot from the fire, to be his axle-wheels; Flies the tough-rinded sapling from the hands That shape it, at a bound recoiling far: So from far-off the dread beast, all of a heap, Sprang on me, hungering for my life-blood.

Hard cast iron blocks are riveted between the guard plates to serve as guides for the axle bushes.

He was always tightening my axle-burrs, or dosing me with kerosene through my hot-air pipe, or toying with my timer.