escape wheel

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   gear that engages a rocking lever

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Questions about escape wheel

What does escape wheel mean?

escape wheel means "gear that engages a rocking lever".

Is escape wheel a common word?

escape wheel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.