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rotating shaft

n. a revolving rod that transmits power or motion [syn: shaft]

Usage examples of "rotating shaft".

A roughened steel plate is fastened to the end of the rotating shaft.

A rotating shaft-undoubtedly slave-powered-entered the large chamber through the far wall and turned a ramshackle collection of belts and pulleys that eventually hooked up to a crude and ugly machine that rattled and squeaked and shook the floor under their feet.

Reaching the rotary table, the supervisor leaned out and placed both gloved hands about the rotating shaft.

For some reason, the children of America conceived around this time a simultaneous and psychopathic craving for simple gyroscopes, the kind which are set in motion by a string wound around the rotating shaft, something like a top.

Now I had something concrete, a flying machine with nothing more than a rotating shaft, flapping wings, and.

It had pipes sticking out from it and what appeared to be a rotating shaft projecting from one side.