lantern wheel

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   a small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks

   Synonymslantern pinion

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Questions about lantern wheel

What does lantern wheel mean?

lantern wheel means "a small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks".

What is another word for lantern wheel?

Close synonyms include lantern pinion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lantern wheel a common word?

lantern 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.