Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scape-wheel

Scape-wheel , noun

(Horology) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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