sprocket

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Over in a dilapidated shack on the opposite side of the highway, 24-year-old Nasratullah Raihan said much the same as he watched a repairman fiddle with the rear sprocket of his bicycle.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2021

He’s always been a gearhead, devoted to celluloid and sprocket holes, but his best movies are also sentimental as hell—big, sloppy tearjerkers wrapped inside clockwork thrillers.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020

I winch the jack five times and hear the sprocket chime out in the quiet shed.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2018

Ease the film onto the metal reel, where, ideally, the film’s sprocket holes will catch in tiny teeth.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2017

A chain weighing twenty thousand pounds connected a sprocket on the axle to sprockets driven by twin thousand-horsepower steam engines.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson