stub axle
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English
Noun
stub axle (plural stub axles)
- (automotive, mechanical engineering) An axle supporting only one wheel of a pair on opposite sides of a vehicle.
- 1962 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Talgo trains of Spain”, in Modern Railways, page 177:
- The axles of the Talgo section are U-shaped and the ends form stub-axles on which the wheels revolve freely and independently.
References
- “stub axle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.