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Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc..

Singletree :: Singletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.

Toe :: Toe (n.) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step..

Pivot :: Pivot (n.) The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch..

Swing :: Swing (n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum..

Run :: Run (a.) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round..

Axis :: Axis (n.) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon..

Bush :: Bush (n.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

Cockhead :: Cockhead (n.) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced..

Cock :: Cock (n.) The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

Rolling :: Rolling (a.) Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball..

Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics..

Gudgeon :: Gudgeon (n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal..

Crapaudine :: Crapaudine (n.) Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door.

Bushing :: Bushing (n.) The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc..

Gimbals :: Gimbals (n.) A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first..

Whippletree :: Whippletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree..

Compass :: Compass (n.) An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.

Pivoting :: Pivoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pivo.

Pinchers :: Pinchers (n. pl.) An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc..

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