handwheel
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
handwheel (plural handwheels)
- (mechanics) Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake, or to allow fine adjustment, as of a set screw.
- 1964 May, “Automation in the cab—latest SNCF developments”, in Modern Railways, page 336:
- When the large handwheel seen in the illustration of a 68000 class cab is moved from "stop" to "run", the traction circuit contactors are closed and the locomotive moves off with the diesel engine running at idling speed.