Bible Dictionaries
Escapement

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The act of escaping; escape.

(2):

(n.) Way of escape; vent.

(3):

(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.