Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In locomotives, the connecting-rod; the main-rod: distinguished from the side-rod.
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Examples
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An examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to fill the socket along which it worked.
Sole Music 2010
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An examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to fill the socket along which it worked.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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An examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to fill the socket along which it worked.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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He had cached his camera, but he had the flag and the message, his one arm was working like a driving-rod, he was running true, the trail lay straight and waiting, with the goal open, and I knew that he would make it!
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An examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to fill the socket along which it worked.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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An examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to fill the socket along which it worked.
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Even the clang of the first dinner gong could not distract him from his study of cylinder and piston and shaft and driving-rod, and all shining mechanism working without pause or jar at man's command.
Killykinick 1888
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