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Example sentences for "pinion"

Lexicographically close words:
pinhead; pinhole; pinholes; pini; pining; pinioned; pinioning; pinions; pink; pinked
  1. Meanwhile, until earth's structure vast Philosophy can bind at last, 'Tis she that bids its pinion move, By means of hunger and of love!

  2. Not one zephyr on soaring pinion conveys to my hearing Echoes, however remote, marking man's pleasures and pains.

  3. The dimmest star in air's dominion Seemed not too distant for his flight; His young and ever-eager pinion Soared far beyond all mortal sight.

  4. Round me is humming the busy bee, and with pinion uncertain Hovers the butterfly gay over the trefoil's red flower.

  5. But its my onbiassed 'pinion that they go it rather too strong on Ethiopians at Oberlin.

  6. I feel that the Show Bizniss, which Ive stroven to ornyment, is bein usurpt by Poplar Lecturs, as thay air kalled, tho in my pinion thay air poplar humbugs.

  7. For up from that summit an eagle shall rise, To breast the thick clouds, till he sails the blue skies; And drop, while he bathes at the fountain of light, A plume from his pinion their story to write.

  8. While the breath of the war-spirit scented the air, The rivers looked wild in reflecting his glare; And ocean's cold bosom was torn, as he gave The flap of his pinion to trouble its wave.

  9. The pinion is arranged in the stock between the cutters, and the shaft extends out of the end of the stock, with a nick in the end for a screwdriver to turn it.

  10. Spring-loaded sliding pinion drives make-and-break shaft 38 through peg in inclined slot 39.

  11. Cam to push pinion 37 along and so alter its angular relation with shaft 38 (to vary timing).

  12. Objective carrier with triple nose-piece: rack and pinion adjustment and micrometer-screw.

  13. To focus the Condenser properly it is adjustable by rack and pinion movement on Stands A, I, Ia, Ib, and by side screw on Stands II and IIa.

  14. The stand is provided with rack and pinion adjustment and both draw-tubes are also regulated by a rack and pinion arrangement, so that they may be adapted to the correct distance of the observers eyes.

  15. The upright also carries, two arms, by rack and pinion adjustment, the one supporting the object stage, the other regulating the length of the camera.

  16. All that can be seen on the exterior are two small milled heads mounted below and somewhat back of the two larger knobs controlling the rack and pinion (coarse) adjustment of the microscope.

  17. A rack and pinion adjustment serves as adjustment of the microscope tube.

  18. A horizontal rack and pinion arrangement permits oblique illumination, and a vertical rack and pinion permits adjustment of the whole sub-stage.

  19. A rack and pinion serves as fine adjustment =24.

  20. The teeth of the rack and pinion are set obliquely to the axis of the tube and are so adjusted that two teeth of each are always interlocked, thus avoiding all possibility of slipping or loss of motion in the movement.

  21. Stand= on heavy base, with rack and pinion adjustment etc.

  22. A small rack and pinion arrangement serves for the adjustment of condenser and diaphragm.

  23. Stand III is now provided with rack and pinion coarse adjustment instead of sliding tube.

  24. The movements of the stage are at right angles to one another, are accomplished by carefully constructed rack and pinion adjustments and the exact position of each adjustment is indicated by vernier scales.

  25. Stand VI= is provided with rack and pinion adjustment only.

  26. As you no doubt know, the pinion is a kind of small pine tree that grows "Out West," and it has a tiny white nut in it that I have heard Fessor say is "the sweetest nut in existence.

  27. I generally hunted first for a few pinion nuts, after which I wanted Fessor to play with me.

  28. But he picked me up and loved me so sweetly and gave me two pinion nuts which he chewed up for me, so that I couldn't help forgiving him.

  29. Then, if he had a few minutes to spare, he would chew up pinion nuts for me and let me eat them from his lips; or, if he felt hurried, he would give me three or four and let me eat them myself.

  30. It certainly was those pinion nuts that had a great deal to do with it.

  31. As arranged, none of us attempted to do more than just pinion each his own particular antagonist and prevent him from drawing his weapons, trusting to the others to help us to master and secure them.

  32. Pinion me those praters' elbows and bind them each to each.

  33. Even the pinion of the eagle fails in its rarified air, and the chamois ventures not to climb its steep and slippery crags.

  34. Pinion 6 slides up and down this shaft, which is square at this point, but round inside the loose pinion 4.

  35. The last pinion of the clockwork train is mounted on a shaft carrying two triangular plates, A and C, to which are attached three short lengths of flat steel spring with a heavy ball attached to the centre of each.

  36. Pinion 1 is mounted on a hollow shaft turned by the clutch.

  37. The weighted lever (14) moves loosely on the pinion shaft through part of a circle.

  38. From the pinion project two arms, one on each side of the lever.

  39. On electric cars the motor is generally suspended from the wheel truck, and a small pinion on the armature shaft gears with a large pinion on a wheel axle.

  40. The shifting sleeve mechanism has a bevel pinion in the place of G (Fig.

  41. The index mechanism makes allowance for the fact that the bevel-wheel on the pinion shaft has its direction reversed at the beginning of every stroke of the piston.

  42. In one form of this mechanism the push-piece is dispensed with, and the minute-wheel pinion is engaged by pulling the knob upwards.

  43. A lever is used to operate the pinion, being inserted in a hub fast upon the same spindle that carries the pinion and the ratchet wheel.

  44. Pinion n is always in gear with pinion l, and pinion m is always in gear with pinion n (and not with pinion l).

  45. The degrees of angle the pinion has been moved through are therefore denoted by I, whereas the degrees of angle the arcs of contact contain are therefore denoted by J.

  46. For a hand feed traverse, pinion P is employed to drive M, which is fast to N.

  47. For faces of rack divide number of teeth in pinion by degree of curving, which take for number of teeth in looking opposite "rack.

  48. On the same shaft as G is a pinion g, which drives the gear wheel H, which engages the rack J, on the carriage, and feeds the carriage to the cut.

  49. A round disc, apparently intended to represent the sun, two erected serpents to support it, and a long broad pinion on each side of the body, was symbolic of "the Supreme.

  50. In plate 35 of the same book, Isis is represented as a nude woman, winged; the position of one pinion being such that it serves to conceal the body from the waist almost to the knees.

  51. The large wheel E is on the carriage axle, and it is driven either by a pinion F, or by J.

  52. Upon the shaft O there are two friction clutches C D, and when C acts the pinion F drives E, and when D acts the pinion G drives H, which in turn drives I, and this wheel is mounted on the same shaft as J.

  53. If s is thrown into gear, as shown in the drawing, the wheel F will turn H and the pinion I will rotate the gear J which is mounted upon the axle of the carriage.

  54. The pinion on the end of the motor shaft engages with the wheel on the end of shaft A.

  55. The pinion C, on the end of the motor shaft, meshes into a gear D which is mounted upon a sleeve E which revolves freely round shaft G.

  56. The centre wheel acts into another pinion, which is called the third wheel pinion, upon the arbor or axle of which is securely fixed the third wheel, which again acts in the escape-pinion carrying the escapement-wheel.

  57. In winding the clock the key is placed upon this square, and being turned round continuously in one direction, the pinion P turns with it.

  58. Above the pallet arbor is a pinion running into the teeth of the pallet wheel and termed the fly-pinion, as it is used for regulating the blows or strokes.

  59. S is a square piece of steel fixed to and forming part of the pinion P.

  60. Fans are attached to the fly-pinion to assist in regulating the striking,--the intervals between the strokes being thus made longer or shorter as desired.

  61. The escape-pinion runs into the third wheel; on this arbor is fitted the escape-wheel, which has very fine teeth cut in it.

  62. The cocking lever was placed horizontally in the casing and engaged the blade rods through a rack and pinion mechanism.

  63. The blades were moved by a rack and pinion mechanism, and triggered by a knob at the end of the handle.

  64. The feature of inserting a pinion with clean and sharp blades permitted the cupper to own only two scarificators.

  65. The pinion is held to the rack by a groove in such a manner that it passes alternately from one side of the rack to the other, and thus gives motion to it in opposite directions, according to the side in which its teeth are engaged.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anchor; appendage; arm; bind; bough; branch; bridle; chain; crest; fasten; feather; fetter; hackle; hamper; hand; handcuff; hobble; joint; lash; leash; leg; limb; link; lobe; manacle; member; moor; offshoot; organ; panache; peg; picket; pinion; plume; quill; ramification; restrain; rope; runner; scion; secure; shackle; spray; sprig; spur; strap; switch; tail; tendril; tether; tie; topknot; trammel; tuft; twig; wheel; wing