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Woodruff key

noun

Machinery.
  1. a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.


Woodruff key

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noun

  1. a semicircular key restrained in a curved keyway in a shaft
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Origin of Woodruff key1

Apparently after the proper name
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of Woodruff key1

C19: named after the Woodruff Manufacturing Co , in Hartford, Connecticut, who first manufactured it in 1892

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