Camshaft

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  • noun. An engine shaft fitted with a cam or cams.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A shaft with cams or wipers used to lift the pestles of stamping-mills.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a shaft that has cams attached to it, forming part of a mechanical device.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves.
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  • noun. has cams attached to it
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rotating shaft  shaft  
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    amatuer  armorial  crankshaft  deep-reaching  detent  
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