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Webster 1913 Edition
Trispaston
{
Tri′spast
,Tri-spas′ton
, }Noun.
[NL.
trispaston
, fr. Gr. [GREEK] drawn threefold; [GREEK] (see Tri-
) + [GREEK] to draw.] (Mech.)
A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights.
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