countwheel
English
Etymology
count + wheel
Noun
countwheel (plural countwheels)
- The wheel in a clock that regulates the number of strokes.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for countwheel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)