crank axle

noun

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.

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Meanings

nouncrank axle (plural crank axles)

plural crank axles

  1. engineeringAn 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.

    Except in the case of the largest 4-6-2, not yet in contemplation, use of two [outside] cylinders only was decided on for the following reasons:— […] 3. The crank axle is expensive in first cost and maintenance.

    1951 July, “British Standard Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 441
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