Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The cup, track, or groove in which the balls of a ball-bearing run.

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Examples

  • Ted was working in a garage through the summer vacation, and he related his daily triumphs: how he had found a cracked ball-race, what he had said to the Old Grouch, what he had said to the foreman about the future of wireless telephony.

    Babbit 2004

  • Ted was working in a garage through the summer vacation, and he related his daily triumphs: how he had found a cracked ball-race, what he had said to the Old Grouch, what he had said to the foreman about the future of wireless telephony.

    Chapter 23 1922

  • Ted was working in a garage through the summer vacation, and he related his daily triumphs: how he had found a cracked ball-race, what he had said to the Old Grouch, what he had said to the foreman about the future of wireless telephony.

    Babbitt 1922

  • Ted was working in a garage through the summer vacation, and he related his daily triumphs: how he had found a cracked ball-race, what he had said to the Old Grouch, what he had said to the foreman about the future of wireless telephony.

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Please note that a ball-race unit is capable of higher shaft speeds than a tapered roller unit.

    unknown title 2008

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