Definitions for axle

axle ax·le

Spelling: [ak-suh l]
IPA: /ˈæk səl/

Axle is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in axle (aelx).

Definitions for axle

noun

  1. Machinery. the pin, bar, shaft, or the like, on which or by means of which a wheel or pair of wheels rotates.
  2. the spindle at either end of an axletree.
  3. an axletree.

Origin of axle

before 900; Middle English axel, Old English eaxl shoulder, crossbeam (in eaxle-gespann); cognate with Old Frisian ax(e)le, Old Saxon ahsla, Old High German ahsala shoulder (German Achsel), O

Examples for axle

When we finally made it into the village, the axle on one of our trucks split in half.

And when he turned the corner, there lay the missing piece from the axle by the city wall.

He looked more closely, and the axle of his cart had disappeared.

The axle replaced, all adjourned to their respective tents to prepare a meal.

Upon the axle of the winding pulley there is a break pulley, p.

He was snuffing at the splashes of axle “dope” on the ground beneath the wagon.

And then he realized that the pear-tree which the bonze had chopped down must have been his axle.

She released the jack under the axle, and the wheel dropped to the ground.

This intricate sequence wrapped us around the axle more than once during design and testing in the years preceding launch.

The success of the whole structure was extremely sensitive to the size of the axle.

Word Value for axle
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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