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Tooth on the rim of a driving wheel
Answer for the clue "Tooth on the rim of a driving wheel ", 8 letters:
sprocket
Alternative clues for the word sprocket
Word definitions for sprocket in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A sprocket is a profiled wheel with teeth. Sprocket may also refer to: Sprockets (Saturday Night Live) , a television comedy sketch on Saturday Night Live
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain [syn: sprocket wheel ] tooth on the rim of gear wheel [syn: cog ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band. 2 (context usually in the plural English) The tooth of such a wheel. 3 (context architecture English) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof. 4 A (w: placeholder name) for ...
Usage examples of sprocket.
Suddenly, from the mouth of the glove compartment came first a grinding, machine-like noise, then the business end of a rotating, multibladed metal thing like a giant sprocket wrench.
The projectionist booth is soundproof because inside the booth is the racket of sprockets snapping film past the lens at six feet a second, ten frames a foot, sixty frames a second snapping through, clattering Gatling-gun fire.
The steel rails tore the jockey wheels out of them, and the tracks sprang out of their seating on the sprockets and whipped into the air, flogging themselves to death in a cloud of dust and torn vegetation.
Slamming the car door hard enough to spring a sprocket, he stomped up the walk and glowered down at me.
In syrupy light Luce was feeding the celluloid through the sprocket wheel.
Bagnall could hear every click of the bicycle chain as it traveled over the sprocket.
Grasping Domi's arm, she thrust the hand between the metal sprockets of the chain pulley.
He brought, in addition to the item Erin requested, two magnums of Korbel champagne, three dozen red roses, a gold bracelet and a shopping bag of assorted compact discs: Smithereens, Pearl Jam, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Men II Boyz, REM, Wilson Phillips.
He suggested I should pass the time seeing the sights while he fixed up the sprockets or the differential gear or whatever it was.
He opened the film gate gingerly and removed the film from the sprockets.
In his left hand he held a makeshift weapon that had been part of a Nautilus Super Pullover machine—a curved metal bar about two feet long, with twelve inches of chain and a dangling, macelike sprocket at its business end.
But when with dog as chipper as ever they enter the third stall, no sprocket wheel is roaring, no magnesium chloride develops vapors.
He pictured many men turning the big cranked handle to rotate the sprocket wheel which turned the endless chain and brought each leather disk up the pipe casing with its quota of water, emptying it into the trough of the pump dale as it came over the top and started its downward journey again.
I don't suppose you ever saw a man caught up in a four-inch roller chain that runs over a sprocket, Mr Stewart?