Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crank; a driving-wing; usually, a crank having parallel sides, and hence as large at its outer end as where it joins the shaft.
- noun One of a pair of curved liners for a shaft-bearing.
- noun A part of anything forming a cheek, or a piece intended to pass over or cover a cheek.
- noun Specifically In armor, that part of a defensive head-covering which defends the cheeks.
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Examples
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One, who had searched near Telades, had found the cheek-piece of a soldier's helmet.
Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1986
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One, who had searched near Telades, had found the cheek-piece of a soldier's helmet.
Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1984
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German silver figure of deer inlaid on cheek-piece.
A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker
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Full length stock with small cheek-piece and flattened at muzzle for shooting from a rest.
A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker
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Then he prayed to the daughter of mighty Zeus, and straightway swung his long spear aloft and hurled it, and smote Eupeithes through his casque with the cheek-piece of bronze.
Book XXIV Homer 1909
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Al stopped her by the simple method of reaching out his left hand and catching Snake by the cheek-piece of the bridle.
The Quirt B. M. Bower 1905
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Al stopped her by the simple method of reaching out his left hand and catching Snake by the cheek-piece of the bridle.
Sawtooth Ranch B. M. Bower 1905
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Then he prayed to the daughter of mighty Zeus, and straightway swung his long spear aloft and hurled it, and smote Eupeithes through his casque with the cheek-piece of bronze.
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878
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If the animal shows unwillingness to approach the mounting-block, the man should hold the off cheek-piece of the headstall of the bridle with his right hand, and, with the flat of his left hand, prevent the horse from swinging his hind quarters out.
The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Alice M. Hayes 1873
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His armour was lavishly adorned with gold: from the cheek-piece of his helmet, from his
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872
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