"crank axle" meaning in English

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      "form": "crank axles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 July, “British Standard Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 441",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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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          "mechanical engineering",
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        [
          "crankshaft",
          "crankshaft"
        ],
        [
          "internal-combustion engine",
          "internal-combustion engine"
        ],
        [
          "cylinder",
          "cylinder"
        ],
        [
          "main frame",
          "main frame"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
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        "of steam locomotives"
      ],
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        "engineering",
        "mechanical",
        "mechanical-engineering",
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  "word": "crank axle"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crank axles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "crank axle (plural crank axles)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 July, “British Standard Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 441",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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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        [
          "mechanical engineering",
          "mechanical engineering"
        ],
        [
          "crankshaft",
          "crankshaft"
        ],
        [
          "internal-combustion engine",
          "internal-combustion engine"
        ],
        [
          "cylinder",
          "cylinder"
        ],
        [
          "main frame",
          "main frame"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
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        "of steam locomotives"
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  "word": "crank axle"
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