Word Meanings - LINCHPIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.

Related words: (words related to LINCHPIN)

• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• SLIDE
  1. To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another. 2. To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
• AXLETREE
  1. A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve. 2. A spindle or axle of a wheel.
• SLIDER
  The red-bellied terrapin . Slider pump, a form of rotary pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• WHEELBIRD
  The European goatsucker.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• WHEELWRIGHT
  A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
• WHEELED
  Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• WHEELWORK
  A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
• WHEELING
  1. The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle. 2. The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling. 3. Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling.
• SLIDDER
  To slide with interruption. Dryden.
• SLIDING
  1. That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly. 2. Slippery; elusory. That sliding science hath me made so bare. Chaucer. Sliding friction , the resistance one body meets with in sliding along the surface of another, as distinguished
• SLIDEWAY
  A way along which something slides.
• WHEELBAND
  The tire of a wheel.
• PREVENTIONAL
  Tending to prevent.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• PELTON WHEEL
  A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
• BACKSLIDING
  Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• ARTILLERY WHEEL
  A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.
• FUDGE WHEEL
  A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.
• WHEEL
  A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. The burden or refrain of a song. Note: "This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is supposed from the context in the few cases where the
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• WATER WHEEL
  1. Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an
• COUNT-WHEEL
  The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.