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Treadwheel :: Treadwheel (n.) A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill..

Treadmill :: Treadmill (n.) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt..

Hindleys Screw :: Hindleys screw () A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form.

Deferent :: Deferent (n.) An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round..

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate..

Radius :: Radius (n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.

Periphery :: Periphery (n.) The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.

Cam :: Cam (n.) 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..

Periphery :: Periphery (n.) The circumference of a circle, ellipse, or other figure..

Blastosphere :: Blastosphere (n.) The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

Drum :: Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound..

Toe :: Toe (n.) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece..

Contour :: Contour (n.) The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery..

Peripheral :: Peripheral (a.) Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.

Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering..

Semidiameter :: Semidiameter (n.) Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius..

Circumscription :: Circumscription (n.) The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.

Circumference :: Circumference (n.) The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.

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