What is "counterweights"

Usage examples of "counterweights".

The echoing clangour of the chain and counterweights that dead Thienz had used to secure his tomb had scarcely faded from hearing when his chest shuddered into motion.

We were still close to the station, and Abdul's men would have to pass those counterweights to get into position to defend against a counterattack.

This sent the counterweights flying outward at a good clip while the cable came whipping inward.

Conan said, "Abdul has been spreading his men out through the counterweights, and they report two enemy armies, Mark XIX tanks, maybe twenty thousand of them.

It was turned by prisoners and slaves, chained to its bars, but these men, without the assistance of the gigantic counterweights, also within the tower, could not have moved it.

There are two counterweights, as I have mentioned, which partially balance the weight of the gate.

It swung smoothly open at his touch, the counterweights creaking loudly in the silence.

It swung smoothly back under his hand, the ancient counterweights barely whispering despite their long years of neglect.

He suspected that once the counterweights in the wall started moving, the momentum might take over.

The chamber's only entrance was secured by a studded door and a clumsy mechanism of counterweights and chain.

Pop grasped it by the roof and pulled it off its hook, indifferent to the counterweights, which immediately became entangled in one another's chains, and to the pendulum, which snapped off when one of the disturbed chains tried to twine around it.

He clutched the clock by its roof, swinging it back and forth indifferently, not hearing the cluds and clunks from inside it, or the occasional strangled sound that might have been the bird trying to escape, not noticing when one of the counterweights smacked the end of an old bed, snapped off, and went rolling beneath, leaving a deep trail in the undisturbed dust of years.

The ropes ran up from the pipes on which the backdrops were hung, went over pulleys just under the roof, and came down to one side of the stage, where a complicated series of counterweights kept the backdrops well enough balanced to be raised or lowered by one man.