Crossword clues for driveshaft
The Collaborative International Dictionary
driveshaft \driveshaft\ n. a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application.
Wiktionary
n. A shaft used to transmit rotary motion.
WordNet
n. a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application
Usage examples of "driveshaft".
The driveshaft for the tail rotor was cut, and the Hind began spinning violently to the left while the pilot tried to autorotate the aircraft down, frantically looking for a flat place while his gunner radioed a shrill call for rescue.
It sounded like one of the main driveshafts from the great clock, heard through one of the thinner walls.
He took his clipboard from the magnetized strip which held it to the center of the dash just above the driveshaft hump, flipped past the blank citation form all cops kept as a shield over the hot-sheet (no need for the general public to be gawking at the license plate numbers the cops were particularly interested in while the cop to whom the sheet belonged was grabbing a hamburger or taking an express dump at a handy filling station), and ran his thumbnail down the fist.
Already relatively lightweight because of the absence of driveshafts and gearboxes, the craft had been stripped of all extraneous gear, including armaments, which cut the aircraft's empty weight from nine thousand to just six thousand, five hundred pounds.
Her father had given Gabe the keys to the Jeep, a warning about the difficult shift into third gear, and a grocery list as long as a driveshaft.