en:mechanical_operation

MECHANICAL FACULTIES- ACTIONS CONCERNING SIMPLE MACHINES

Lever; for the forcible motion of a thing ‖ upwards, or downwards.
- LIFTING, heave, hoise, advance, elevate, exalt, Lever, Crow, Crane.
- DEPRESSING, strein, stress, weigh down.
Balance; for ‖ trial of the weight of things, or the preponderating of one side.
- LIBRATING, balancing.
- BIASSING, preponderate.
Wedge; for the dividing of hard tough bodies; to which may be op∣posed the thrusting of them close together.
- CLEAVING, rive, slit, sp•it, Cle•t, Chink, Chap, Crevise.
- COMPRESSING, crib, gripe, pinching, press, squeezing, straining, wring, nip, twing throng, crowd, crush, Constipation, bulge.
Pully; when the mover and moved continue their Contiguity in ‖ ad∣motion, or amotion.
- PULLING, pluck, tow, tug, lugg, twing, twitch, draw, drag, Draught, hale, Revulsion, vellication, distract.
- THRVSTING, push, shove, drive, rush, justle, repell, extrude, intrude, press, throng, crowd, cramm. farce, wedge in, vennue, run at, foin at.
Wheel; by ‖ continued turning about, or rolling backward or forward.
- VERTIGINATING, turning round, Revolution, wheeling, Rotation, twirl, whirl, spinn, role round.
- VOLUTATION, tumbling, rolling, wallow, welter, rock, trundle, waddle.
Screw; to which may be adjoyned for some affinity the action of that concave Instrument used for the projection of water.
- SCREWING, Winch.
- SYRINGING, squirting, spirt, spouting.
Spring; wherein there is a motion of restitution: to which may be annexed for its affinity the forcible putting a thing out of its natural tension and posture.
- SPRINGING, elastical, fillip.
- BENDING, bow, warp, crooke.