Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bearing that receives and transmits to the hull of a ship the thrust of a screw propeller: usually called
thrust-block by marine engineers.
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Examples
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Unlike some other major brands of inexpensive refractors on alt-azimuth mounts, we're looking at good quality here… thrust-bearing surfaces well lubricated and teflon bearings… the control knobs work easily and mechanically perfect to allow you to set just the right amount of tension to make everything work with ease.
The Sky-Watcher AZ4 102 Refractor Telescope… How Sweet It is! | Universe Today 2009
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And when we have shifted the engine, I send off a telegram of gibberish to its makers at New York, something like this: Toggle-joint abandoned change thrust-bearing accordingly distance from forward side of flywheel to face of stern post sixteen feet six inches.
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And when we have shifted the engine, I send off a telegram of gibberish to its makers at New York, something like this: Toggle-joint abandoned change thrust-bearing accordingly distance from forward side of flywheel to face of stern post sixteen feet six inches.
Chapter 1 1911
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And when we have shifted the engine I send off a telegram of gibberish to its makers at New York, something like this: "Toggle-joint abandoned change thrust-bearing accordingly distance from forward side of fly-wheel to face of stern-post sixteen feet six inches."
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The inside faces of these lugs are machined, and in them fit the ball ends of the levers E, the latter being fulcrumed at F in the thrust-bearing cover.
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The screws G, working in bushes, also fit into the thrust-bearing cover, and are capable of pushing against the ends of the levers E and thus adjusting the separate halves of the block in opposite directions.
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