Hooke's gearing

English

Etymology

So called from the inventor.

Noun

Hooke's gearing (plural Hooke's gearings)

1. (engineering) A spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Hooke's gearing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)