What is "cogwheels"

Usage examples of "cogwheels".

Designer are all the cogwheels that control the movements of the Harrow, and this machinery is regulated according to the inscription demanded by the sentence.

Golden cogwheels were embroidered on patches that decorated their chests and shoulders.

This place beyond space and time seemed entirely filled with machinery, with an endless variety of cogwheels and spindles, with belts to drive them, all of them apparently suspended in midair and working away with a zinging, hissing, clanging sound.

Oliver I spent a silent hour or two by myself while smooth cogwheels like quiet fruit machines clicked gently into place, and I made at the end of that time two telephone calls, one to the Bedford Lodge Hotel in Newmarket and the other to the Met Office at Bracknell.

Out of sight underneath the pier were the cogwheels and accumulator tanks that helped operate the bascule on this side of the river.

Inside there, inside the pier itself, were the cogwheels the quadrants, I think they were called that helped raise and lower the bridge on this side of the river.

Harry flicked the latch and the doors swung outward to expose an array of ancient cogwheels and drive bands.

The ride back to town gave me time to get my mental cogwheels functioning.

He winced as he was hit by a brief and inexplicable shower of small cogwheels, which pattered down all around him.

Inside the engine they put little cogwheels like Sturgis to keep it running.

This is squeezed between two cogwheels so that a small amount of dye squirts forth.