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- Escapement - n. - The act of escaping; escape.
- Escapement - n. - Way of escape; vent.
- Escapement - n. - The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.
- Scape-wheel - n. - The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
- Grasshopper - n. - In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper.