Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
escapement , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
escapement , 3.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
escapement . (part of a timepiece)
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Examples
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My apprentices are turned into mere goblins — they appear and disappear like spunkies, and have no more regularity in them than a watch without a scapement.
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The mechanism by which these numbers are counted is technically called a scapement.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831
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My apprentices are turned into mere goblins -- they appear and disappear like spunkies, and have no more regularity in them than a watch without a scapement.
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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He had amended and improved the new Graham clock, called the 'dead scapement,' or 'dead-beat escapement' (the origin of our modern word _dead-beat_, signifying a man who does not meet his engagements, whereas the original
Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877
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