lockings

The distance of centers of wheel and pallet will be alike in both cases; also the lockings will be the same distance apart on both pallets; therefore, when horologists, even if they have worldwide reputations, claim that the club tooth has an advantage over the ratchet because it begins the lift with a shorter lever than the latter, it does not make it so.

An Analysis of the Lever Escapement H. R. Playtner

That's down 21. 7\% from 144,743 "lockings" last year.

WCAX - Local News 2008

That's down 21.7 percent from 144,743 "lockings" last year, according to the state Canal Corp., which runs the Erie, Champlain, the Oswego and the Cayuga-Seneca canals.

Market News 2008

That's down 21.7 percent from 144,743 "lockings" last year.

13WHAM: Top Stories 2008

But more, consider that racers strive to be distant from one another; cuffers, by the judges of the field, are not permitted to take hold; and none but wrestlers come up breast to breast, and clasp one another round the waist, and most of their turnings, liftings, lockings bring them very close.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

But more, consider that racers strive to be distant from one another; cuffers, by the judges of the field, are not permitted to take hold; and none but wrestlers come up breast to breast, and clasp one another round the waist, and most of their turnings, liftings, lockings bring them very close.

Symposiacs 2004

He sat in his own armchair and allowed his mind to picture other rooms and doorways, other silent lockings of eyes and his own distant presence, as he read into the moment a deeply ambiguous meaning.

The Master Colm Tóibín 2004

Everyone knows I was lockings for a new sister for me and for you, and if you send her away her face is finished.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

The equidistant pallet is so-called because the lockings are an equal distance from the center; sometimes it is also called the tangential escapement, on account of the unlocking taking place on the intersection of tangent AC with EB, and FB with AD, the tangents, which is the valuable feature of this form of escapement.

An Analysis of the Lever Escapement H. R. Playtner

Fig.  1 illustrates the lockings, spanning this arc.

An Analysis of the Lever Escapement H. R. Playtner