What is "journal bearing"

Journal \Jour"nal\, n. [F. journal. See Journal, a.]

1. A diary; an account of daily transactions and events. Specifically:

   1. (Bookkeeping) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions.

   2. (Naut.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc.

   3. (Legislature) The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk.

   4. A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc.; a periodical; a magazine.

2. That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey. [Obs. & R.]
   --B. Jonson.

3. (Mach.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box.

   Journal box, or Journal bearing (Mach.) the carrier of a journal; the box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or pin turns.

n. the bearing of a journal