crown wheel

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Noun

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crown wheel (plural crown wheels)

  1. In watchmaking, an object of circular shape with contrate teeth, which meshes with the winding pinion and with the ratchet-wheel on the barrel-arbor used to wind-up the watch, respectively, to set the time.

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