GARDECAUT

, or Guard du Cord, in a watch, is that which stops the fusee, when wound up, and for that end is driven up by the spring. Some call it Guard-cock; others Guard du Gut.|

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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