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Escapement   /ɪskˈeɪpmənt/   Listen
Escapement

noun
1.
Mechanical device that regulates movement.





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"Escapement" Quotes from Famous Books



... in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology ...
— Watch and Clock Escapements • Anonymous
... love or hate, Their lives must all in painful sighs be spent, Watching the lonely waters soon and late, And clouds that pass and leave them to their fate, Or company their grief with heavy tears:— Meanwhile that Hope can spy no golden gate For sweet escapement, but in darksome fears They weep and pine away as ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot stop them; they cannot stop themselves; sleep cannot still them; madness only makes them go faster; death alone can break into the case, and seizing the ever-swinging pendulum, which we call the heart, silence at last the clicking of the terrible escapement we have carried so long beneath ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 • Various


Words linked to "Escapement" :   timekeeper, mechanical device, timepiece, horologe, escape wheel


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