What is "pivoting"

Usage examples of "pivoting".

Arranged to traverse on circles fitted with Bossed Sockets for pivoting, and with clevis-bolts and sockets for housing.

But it is not possible, in pivoting, to exert direct action for more than the eighth of a circle by one position of a tackle, and it is absolutely dangerous at sea to leave the Slide unconfined for an instant.

The pivoting of so heavy a Gun is the most complicated of all the operations with it, and demands special drill.

Slide, which needlessly strains the pivoting, and also causes the shackle with its appliances to interfere with the working parts at the forward end of the Slide.

It was possible that Aeron could have killed them both in that moment of near paralysis, but he still would have had to contend with the other outlaws, and the two Gray Blades who, alarmed by the murky burst of magic, were pivoting in his direction.

The two guards leaped in behind the gun, primed the ammo belt in the breech, and slid by toward the partisans, pivoting the barrel left and right, ready just as Luis had commanded and planned.

The Tiger lurched backward, pivoting on the inert left track to turn the Tiger to the right.

The Russian driver continued to skid around to the right, stubbornly staying in front of the pivoting Tiger.

One arm collapsed, forcing her to fall in a heap instead of pivoting back onto her feet.

The woman surrendered him to the girl, pivoting her body so that her breasts lay upon his chest and side, propping her head on an elbow extended past his shoulder.

The prow rotated seaward in line with the staff as though the vessel were pivoting on its mast.

He rose, pivoting smoothly and very fast, the sword coming free of the scabbard with a rasping hiss of steel on greased leather and wood.

He covered the hundred feet uphill in a near-silent panther rush, already close enough to see the sentry pivoting, eyes wide in a filthy, hairy sun-scorched face, blood coughing out between his bearded lips in a bright fan of arterial red.

The big man moved with astonishing grace as the horse thundered down on him, pivoting, the sword lashing out in the same motion.

The shaky gasp had her pivoting about, surprised by the man she had not espied upon entering the garden.