Found 1 hit - Term: chuck farthing, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
chuck \chuck\, n.
1. a slight blow or pat under the chin.
1913 webster
2. a short throw; a toss.
1913 webster
3. mach. a contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a
lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated
upon.
1913 webster
chuck farthing, a play in which a farthing is pitched into
a hole; pitch farthing.
chuck hole, a deep hole in a wagon rut.
elliptic chuck, a chuck having a slider and an eccentric
circle, which, as the work turns round, give it a sliding
motion across the center which generates an ellipse.
--knight.
1913 webster
see also:
chuck farthing chuck hole elliptic chuck
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Chuck, definition of term: Chuck
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Farthing, definition of term: Farthing
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Chuck Out, definition of term: Chuck Out
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Collet Chuck, definition of term: Collet Chuck
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