Synonyms:
swivel
Meaning: a coupling (as in a chain) that has one end that turns on a headed pin
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
pivot, swivel
Meaning: turn on a pivot
Usage examples
It was mounted on a swivel or pivot, which we had the means of firmly fixing to the deck.
They had the gun, by this time, slewed round upon the swivel, and Hands, who was at the muzzle with the rammer, was in consequence the most exposed.
The swivel alluded to in this work was buried and abandoned by the troops on this occasion, and it was subsequently found in digging the cellars of the authors paternal residence.
There Dillon collected many relics of the shipwreck: iron utensils, anchors, eyelets from pulleys, swivel guns, an eighteen-pound shell, the remains of some astronomical instruments, a piece of sternrail, and a bronze bell bearing the inscription "Made by Bazin," the foundry mark at Brest Arsenal around 1785. There could no longer be any doubt.