, the fulcrum or prop of a lever; or the point which sustains its pressure, when employed either in raising or lowering bodies. The Hypomochlion is frequently a roller set under the lever; or under stones or pieces of timber, &c, that they may be the more easily lifted up, or removed.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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