See pivot on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1962 December, “The B.R. standard diesel-electric Type 1 locomotive”, in Modern Railways, page 382:",
"text": "The weight of the body and the traction and braking forces are taken by the conventional dished bogie centre pivot with phosphor-bronze liner; this type of centre pivot facilitates passage over marshalling yard humps.",
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"word": "առանցք"
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"word": "樞"
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"sense": "that on which something turns",
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"sense": "that on which something turns",
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"word": "maighdeog"
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"sense": "that on which something turns",
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"word": "perno"
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"roman": "pibotto",
"sense": "that on which something turns",
"word": "ピボット"
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"sense": "that on which something turns",
"word": "枢"
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"sense": "that on which something turns",
"word": "피벗"
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"sense": "that on which something turns",
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"word": "cnodax"
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"sense": "that on which something turns",
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"word": "pivot"
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"word": "osovina"
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"ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
"text": "“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…]”",
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"pivot."
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