Word Meanings - RACKTAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.

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• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• SWINGDEVIL
  The European swift.
• CLOCKLIKE
  Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.
• NOTCH
  1. A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift. 2. A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.
• MECHANISM
  An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements. (more info) 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the
• SWINGE
  See SPENSER
• REPEATER
  One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. A repeating firearm. An instrument for resending a telegraphic message
• SWINGLE
  1. To dangle; to wave hanging. Johnson. 2. To swing for pleasure.
• NOTCHWEED
  A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria).
• CLOCKWISE
  Like the motion of the hands of a clock; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative.
• CLOCKWORK
  The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.
• SWINGLETREE
  A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.
• NOTCHING
  A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions. (more info) 1. The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows. 2. The small hollow, or hollows,
• STRIKE
  Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
• STRIKING
  a. & n. from Strike, v. Striking distance, the distance through which an object can be reached by striking; the distance at which a force is effective when directed to a particular object. -- Striking plate. The plate against which the latch of
• ATTACH
  tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
• SWINGLEBAR
  A swingletree. De Quincey.
• NOTCHBOARD
  The board which receives the ends of the steps in a staircase.
• REPEATING
  Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch. Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3. -- Repeating decimal , a circulating decimal. See under Decimal.
• WATER CLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
• VASE CLOCK
  A clock whose decorative case has the general form of a vase, esp. one in which there is no ordinary dial, but in which a part of a vase revolves while a single stationary indicator serves as a hand.
• STREAM CLOCK
  An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.