Crossword clues for tappet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tappet \Tap"pet\, n. (Mach.)
A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or
intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to
produce change or regulate motion.
--G. Francis.
Tappet motion, a valve motion worked by tappets from a reciprocating part, without an eccentric or cam, -- used in steam pumps, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
machine part, 1745, apparently from tap (v.1) + -et, "but the use of the suffix is abnormal" [OED].
Wiktionary
n. A lever or projection which is moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, in order to produce change or regulate motion.
WordNet
n. a lever that is moved in order to tap something else
Wikipedia
A tappet is a projection that imparts a linear motion to some other component within a mechanism.
Usage examples of "tappet".
For myself I want a horse, friend Tappet, for snow or no I must sleep in the next shire.
Grandma a constant, a clock, a pendulum, a face to tell all time by at noon, or in the middle of sick nights when, raved with fever, we saw her forever by our beds, never gone, never away, always waiting, always speaking kind words, her cool hand icing our hot brows, the tappet of her uplifted forefinger unsprung to let a twine of cold mountain water touch our flannel tongues.
He stumbled back against the engine, head between the clashing tappets, and rolled down to the grating.
And in the center of it all, an enormous steam Wurlitzer pounded and thrummed, flywheel spinning, slide valves popping, with shafts and belts connected to an incredible Rube Goldberg concoction of rocking cranks, syncopating levers, undulating cams, whirling gear trains, and nodding tappets, all acting out its cycle of interlocked motions with a complexity and ingenuity that astonished even Hunt.
You can hear the engine tappets knocking from a block away, the springs squeak, and the headlights flicker.
The afternoon faded and at dinnertime an invitation was forced upon the not-reluctant Haroway and the talk continued: worm and wheel steering with the spaghetti, semicentrifugal, wet multiplate clutches with the meat, and banana-shaped tappets with the dessert.
The northward stream of traffic was light and I kept the tappets clicking at a steady sixty.
He stumbled back against the engine, head between the clashing tappets, and rolled down to the grating.
And in the center of it all, an enormous steam Wurlitzer pounded and thrummed, flywheel spinning, slide valves popping, with shafts and belts connected to an incredible Rube Goldberg concoction of rocking cranks, syncopating levers, undulatÂing cams, whirling gear trains, and nodding tappets, all acting out its cycle of interlocked motions with a complexity and ingenuity that astonished even Hunt.