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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A wheel used to ride upon and press a rope or cable into a groove of another wheel from which the rope or cable is paid out. The bearing of a jockey-wheel are often in the end of a lever by which the jockey is held to its duty. These wheels are much used in laying submarine cables. Also
jockey .
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