, one of the five Mechanical powers, otherwise called the Screw; being so named from the resemblance a screw bears to the spiral shell of a snail, which the Latins call Cochlea. See Screw, and MECHANICAL Powers.
COCK of a Dial, the pin, style, or gnomon.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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