tappets

Then the procession set off again, holding high their tappets, their clutch, their shocks.

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

Each made from the curving, almost-circular tusk of a wild boar, polished to a deep ivory glow, the ends capped with silver tappets, etched with flowered tracery.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Then the procession set off again, holding high their tappets, their clutch, their shocks.

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

Anyway, the man gets up on the roof, looks around for awhile, comes back down, says we need a new roof, a soffit vent (whatever that is), our tappets are too tight and it's going to cost us $45,000.

Ask Mr. Fix-It! 2010

The tappets were out and the pistons were slapping.

Killing Floor Child, Lee 1997

The tappets were out and the pistons were slapping.

Killing Floor Child, Lee 1997

For plain weave using two shafts, or for four shafts working as two so as to avoid overcrowding of the healds, the tappets are fixed on the bottom-shaft, and hence rotate at half the top-shaft speed.

Chapter 6 1983

Firstly, it operates the treadles by means of diametrically opposed cams (tappets) in order to raise and lower the healds alternately for the production of plain-weave fabric (the arrangement for other simple weaves is dealt with later).

Chapter 6 1983

On the Lancashire loom, these simple weaves can be made by installing a separate tappet shaft on which tappets of appropriate shape can be mounted and driven at the required speed by change-gearing from the bottom shaft.

Chapter 6 1983

For weaves woven by means of tappets which require more than two staves, more complex multiple roller reversing motions can be fitted to the Lancashire loom or, alternatively, spring-operated reversing motions, of which there are a number of designs, can be used.

Chapter 6 1983