Sentence examples for pinions from inspiring English sources
Giovanni Battista Danti tried it with pinions of iron and feathers in 15th-century Perugia, hurtling over the piazza and crash-landing on the church.
Each wheel axle is attached to a differential side gear, which meshes with the differential pinions.
If the vehicle turns to the left, the right-hand wheel will be forced to rotate faster than the left-hand wheel, and the side gears and the pinions will rotate relative to one another.
Because of space considerations, the pinions must have a low number of leaves (teeth), commonly 6 to 12.
The case is an open boxlike structure that is bolted to the ring gear and contains bearings to support one or two pairs of diametrically opposite differential bevel pinions.
On a straight road the wheels and the side gears rotate at the same speed, there is no relative motion between the differential side gears and pinions, and they all rotate as a unit with the case and ring gear.
This encouraged Swiss entrepreneurs to construct not only hotels and huts but ever more ambitious rail lines; indeed, it seemed no gradient could not be conquered by rack-and-pinion or narrow gauge.
My final ride of the day was the rasping haul up to Wengen, via a rack-and-pinion railway that's been operating since 1891; Miss Jemima had to walk.
The result was one of the totemic pictures of the strike – Scargill, each arm pinioned by a police offer, the unrepentant martyr on his way to jail.
By some measures, nearly half the population is under-nourished.Farmers, who feel themselves pinioned by high costs, low prices and the threat of imports as India opens its markets, are in a foul enough mood to scare politicians.
At the Republican convention this year in Tampa, speaker after speaker strode to the podium to denounce Barack Obama for pinioning small businesses and strangling the recovery.
