axle
English
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Etymology 1
From Middle English axel, axle, eaxle, from Old English eaxl (“shoulder, armpit”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahslu (“shoulder”), from Proto-Germanic *ahslō (“shoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-l-eh₂, from *h₂eḱs- (“axis, axle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian acsle (“shoulder”), Dutch oksel (“armpit”), German Achsel (“armpit”), Swedish axel (“shoulder”), Latin axilla (“armpit”), Latin axis (“axle”), Greek άξονας (áxonas, “axle”), Sanskrit अक्ष (ákṣa, “axle”), Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣá, “room, armpit”), Russian ось (osʹ, “axle”).
Noun
axle (plural axles)
Etymology 2
From Middle English axil, in turn a combination of Old English eax and Old Norse ǫxull.
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.
- (geometry, astronomy, archaic) An axis.
- the Sun's axle
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See also
- axle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Axle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English eaxl.
Noun
axle
- Alternative form of axel
Etymology 2
A conflation of Old English eax and Old Norse ǫxull.
Noun
axle
- Alternative form of axil
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