odlingt

[Prob. a var. of addling, verbal n. of addle2, gain, etc.] Some kind of trickery or swindling. The word is found only in the following pa age: Shift, a thread-bare shark; one that never was a soldier, yet lives upon lendings. His profe ion is skeldring and odling ; his bank Paul's, and his warehouse Pic thatch. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour (characters). odometer (o-dom'e-ter), n. [Prop. hodometer , ὁδός , & way, + μέτρον , & measure.] An instrument extensively used for measuring the distance pa ed over by any wheeled vehicle, and also in topographical surveying in regions traversed by roads. For ordinary purposes of distance measuring the odometer is attached to the wheel of the IMG:content-1631.png:[blocks in formation] 4, Hudson's odometer; b, working parts, enlarged. (The recording. wheel is operated on the worm-gear principle.) vehicle, the length of the circumference of which has been measured, and the distance is computed from the reading of the index. In surveying with the odometer the wheel is ten feet in circumference, and is made with great care; it is drawn by hand. This kind of odometer has been extensively used in the United States in the preparation of the various State maps chiefly in use. In most of the so-called "county maps" in the northeastern States nearly all the work has been done by compa and odometer surveys. odometrical (ō-do-metri-kal), a. [As odometer + -ic-al.] Pertaining to an odometer, or to the measurements made by it.