little end

noun

1. Also called (in vertical engines)top end the smaller end of a connecting rod in an internal-combustion engine or reciprocating pump Compare big end
2. the bearing surface between the smaller end of a connecting rod and the gudgeon pin

Example Sentences

But here he's lived on the little end of this country now going on ten years, and what have you done?

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In the fall the battles of the spring are fought over again, beginning at the other or little end of the series.

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Well tack a little end of the wood to the bottom of the leg, called Joan, excitedly.

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It seems as if thee always carried a horn about with thee so that thee might creep out of the little end of it.

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He knew the axe that he used the night before on the little end of bacon was lying, pressed into the snow, under one runner.

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