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bicameral

bicameral : having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers [a legislature] bi·cam·e·ral·ism [bī-ka-mə-rə-li-zəm] n bi·cam·er·al·i·ty [bī-ka-mə-ra-lə-tē] n ...

A kind of wood turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms as felloes gun stocks lasts spokes etc after a given pattern The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern...

A turning or sliding piece which by the shape of its periphery or face or a groove in its surface imparts variable or intermittent motion to or receives such motion from a rod lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it...

camshaft

a shaft that has cams attached to it forming part of a mechanical device...

Lay shaft

A secondary shaft as in a sliding change gear for an automobile a cam shaft operated by a two to one gear in an internal combustion engine It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine as in some marine engines a shaft driven by a small auxiliary engine for independently operating the valves of the main engine to insure uniform motion...

Machine

In general any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified as a screw and its nut or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot etc especially a construction more or less complex consisting of a combination of moving parts or simple mechanical elements as wheels levers cams etc with their supports and connecting framework calculated to constitute a prime mover or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine and transmit modify and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work as weaving by a loom or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine...

Deemsters

Deemsters [fr. dema, Sax., a judge or umpire]. Judges in the Isle of Man and in Jersey, who, without process or any charge to the parties, decide all controversies in those islands; they are chosen from among the parties themselves, Cam. Brit.; and 4 Inst. 284. See DEMPSTER....

Fifteenths

Fifteenths, a tribute or imposition of money anciently laid generally upon cities, boroughs, etc., throughout the whole realm; it amounted to a fifteenth of that which each city or town was valued at, or of every man's personal estate, Cam. Brit. 171....

Forses

Forses (catatud', Lat.], waterfalls, Cam. Brit....

Lawless Court

Lawless Court [quia dicta sine lege, Lat.], 'a tribunal held on King's Hill, at Rochford, in Essex, on Wednesday morning next after Michaelmas Day, yearly, at cock-crowing, at which Court they whisper, and have no candle, nor any pen nor ink, but a coal; and he that owes suit or service there, and appears not, forfeits double his rent.'-Cam. Brit. Obsolete....

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