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noun
1.
Machinery.
a.
Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain.
b.
one tooth of such a wheel.
2.
Carpentry. a wedge-shaped piece of wood extending a sloping roof over the eaves with a flatter pitch.
Origin:
1530–40; origin uncertain
1530–40; origin uncertain
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Word Origin & History
sprocket
1530s, originally a carpenters' word for a piece of timber used in framing, of unknown origin. The meaning "projection from the rim of a wheel that engages the links of a chain" is first recorded 1750.
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