"axle of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe the part of a vehicle that connects the wheels and allows them to rotate. Example: The mechanic examined the axle of the car to determine why it was making a strange noise.
The machine gun that Yaz carried weighed as much as the front axle of a Sentra.
The main wheel engages with the centre pinion, on the arbor (axle) of which is also mounted the centre wheel.
Its mine-roller — an extended axle of weighted wheels that tests the ground ahead — absorbed the brunt of the blast.
A young Sudanese migrant was killed on Friday after trying to conceal himself near the axle of a coach that had stopped in a supermarket car park.
Does this mean we're an "axle of evil?" Apparent translation: All praise to the Dear Leader, avatar of the motherland, defender of our sovereignty and safety.
Elephant, cat, rat, whale - in the lower frequencies... trying to hear such things as the note made by the rocking of the axle of the earth.
He teamed up with local people, particularly Billy Mahoney Sr., who had built Telluride's first lift, a rope tow hooked to the rear axle of a vintage jalopy.
The planet itself rides on the equator circle of sphere 4. The axle of 4 fits inside sphere 3 with a slight angular offset.
Power is conveyed from the transmission to the rear axle of rear-wheel-drive vehicles by a drive shaft and universal joints.
In a recent article in The New Republic on the S.U.V. -- labeled on the cover as the "Axle of Evil" -- Gregg Easterbrook not only confessed to owning a Honda Odyssey but also boasted about its 240-horsepower V-6 engine.
The charitable function of this bump is to break the front axle of your car, wrecking the machine so that it can't proceed onto the track in the path of the train.
