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Crosshead

A metal beam that connects a piston to a connecting rod in an engine.

📖 Definitions of "Crosshead"

noun

1
A metal beam that connects a piston to a connecting rod in an engine.
2
Large text, like a headline but typically drawn from the article, placed partway through the article to break it up visually.

🔄 Synonyms of "Crosshead"

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Word	Definition
crossheadingnoun	(journalism) Synonym of crosshead.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Crosshead"

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Word	Definition
beamnoun	A broad smile.
headstocknoun	The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
walking beamnoun	In a vertical engine, a horizontal beam, usually trussed, that transmits power to the crankshaft through the connecting-rod.
cross-tailnoun	A bar in a steam engine connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
working beamnoun	Alternative form of walking beam. [In a vertical engine, a horizontal beam, usually trussed, that transmits power to the crankshaft through the connecting-rod.]
wrist pinnoun	(engineering) Any pin connecting a pitman to a crosshead.
stocknoun	A store or supply.
headnoun	(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
cotternoun	(mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
linknoun	A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
cross-membernoun	Alternative spelling of crossmember. [(architecture) A transverse structural support.]
wristpinnoun	Alternative form of wrist pin. [(engineering) Any pin connecting a pitman to a crosshead.]
hex head wrenchnoun	A screwdriver with a hexagonal head, usually in the form of a handle and head at right angles with both ends offering a hexagonal end.
mill headnoun	The head of water employed to turn a millwheel.
cross handlenoun	A handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur.
crossmembernoun	(architecture) A transverse structural support.
crank axlenoun	(mechanical engineering, of steam locomotives) An axle formed in the manner of a crankshaft in an internal-combustion engine, having one or two cranked sections driven from one or two cylinders inside the main frames.
springheadnoun	The source of a natural spring.
bearingnoun	(in the plural, especially in phrases such as 'get one's bearings') One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.
heart wheelnoun	(engineering) A form of cam shaped like a heart, used to convert uniform rotary motion into uniform reciprocating motion.