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Toothed wheel

Toothed \Toothed\, a.

  1. Having teeth; furnished with teeth. ``Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl.''
    --Herrick.

  2. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.

    Toothed whale (Zo["o]l.), any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete.

    Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on the engaging teeth of another wheel.

WordNet
toothed wheel

n. a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations [syn: roulette]

Usage examples of "toothed wheel".

Her raven's-wing hair was parted in the middle and confined by a circlet of silver, on the front of which was fixed a tiny toothed wheel.

She saw a black-toothed wheel in the sky to the north, a gyre of carrion birds that plunged a few at a time while others assembled from the far hills and the shores of the sea, come to tidy up after the butchers.

He reached down, almost at random, and came up with a gear-toothed wheel about seven niches in diameter.