Crossword-Solution: GIMBAL 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The four pistons are carried upon the gimbal ring, which connects, by means of pivots, the two chair couplings.

Thus cariophyllus, flos; gerofilo, Italian, giriflee, gilofer, French, gilliflower, which the vulgar call julyflower, as if derived from the month July; petroselinum, parsley; portulaca, purslain; cydonium, quince; cydoniatum, quiddeny; persicum, peach; eruca, eruke, which they corrupt to earwig, as if it took its name from the ear; annulus geminus, a gimmal, or gimbal-ring; and thus the word gimbal or jumbal is transferred to other things thus interwoven; quelques choses, kickshaws.

The barometer on shipboard should be suspended on a gimbal frame, which ought not to swing too freely, but rather so as to deaden oscillations by some degree of friction.

One would signal "_Rocket starting to yaw_," and another would reply to the servomotors that activated the gimbal-mounted motor, "_Compensate! Two degrees correction azimuth 350!_" and the great rocket would steady on course again.

All compasses are fitted with a gimbal ring to keep the bowl and card level under every circumstance of a ship's motion in a seaway, the ring being connected with the binnacle or pedestal by means of journals or knife edges.