Definitions for crown-wheel

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crown-wheel crown wheel

Crown-Wheel is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 305 anagrams from letters in crown-wheel (-ceehlnorww).

Definitions for crown-wheel

noun

1. a wheel next to the winding knob, having two sets of teeth, one at right angles to its plane.
2. any of various wheels having the form of a hoop or short cylinder with a serrated edge, as the escape wheel in a verge escapement.

Origin of crown-wheel

First recorded in 1640-50

Examples for crown-wheel

R is the crown wheel or balance wheel acting upon the pallets P and P', which form part of the verge V.

All these four face wheels are driven by a crown wheel, which is put in motion by a horse.