axle
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English axle, eaxle, from Old English eaxl (“shoulder, armpit”), from Proto-Germanic *ahslō (“shoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *aḱs- (“armpit”). Cognate with Eastern Frisian acsle (“shoulder”), Dutch oksel (“armpit”), German Achsel (“armpit”), Swedish axel (“armpit”), Latin axilla (“armpit”), Latin axis (“axle”), Greek άξονας (áksonas, “axle”), Sanskrit अक्ष (ákṣa, “axle”), Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣá, “room, armpit”), Russian ось (os', “axle”).
[edit] Noun
axle (plural axles)
[edit] Etymology 2
A combination of Old English eax and Old Norse öxull.
[edit] Noun
axle (plural axles)
- The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
- A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
- An axis; as, the sun’s axle.
[edit] Translations
the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel
a transverse bar or shaft
an axis
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[edit] See also
Axle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Axle in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
