axle treeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English axiltre; equivalent to axle +‎ tree.

名詞

axletree (複数形 axletrees)

1. A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.
2. A spindle or axle of a wheel.
3. A stimulus or driving force.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 80:

     Soon after his arrival, that patent axletree of action, the not knowing what to do with himself, domesticated him during some weeks of the shooting season at Sillery House...