Associations to the word «Axle»

Wiktionary

AXLE, noun. (obsolete) Shoulder.
AXLE, noun. The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
AXLE, noun. A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
AXLE, noun. An axis; as, the Sun’s axle.
AXLE BOX, noun. A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes.
AXLE BOX, noun. The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.
AXLE GUARD, noun. The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically.
AXLE HITCH, noun. A hitch knot used to securely attach a line or rope to a spar in a difficult to reach place, such as an axle.
AXLE HITCHES, noun. Plural of axle hitch

Dictionary definition

AXLE, noun. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats