car shaker
car shaker
[′kär ‚shāk·ər] (mechanical engineering)
A device consisting of a heavy yoke on an open-top car's sides that actively vibrates and rapidly discharges a load, such as coal, gravel, or sand, when an unbalanced pulley attached to the yoke is rotated fast.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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car shakers said to me that he did not think that the driver had been very keen on hunting.
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