placard, placard, placart, plagard, plackard

Fr. placard, plaquard, from plaque =a bar of metal; Dut. plak a ferule, a slice; O. Dut. plack a slice, plakken =to glue or paste; Fr. plaquer to parget, to stick or paste on.] *1. A license or permi ion. "Others are of the contrary opinion, and that Chris tianity gives us a placard to use these sports."- Fuller : Holy State , bk. iii., ch. xiii. *2. A public proclamation or manifesto i ued by authority. 1. Machinery: (1) A short shaft or pintle on which a body oscil- Howell: Letters, bk. i., § ii., let. 15. "All placarts or edicts are published in his name." lates or revolves. (2) A bearing-pin of a small shaft. 2. Mil .: The same as PIVOT-MAN (q. v.). 3. Watchmaking: A journal at the end of an arbor. pivot-bolt, s. Ordn.: The axis of horizontal oscillation. A traversing platform pa ing through the pivot transom and the front sleeper of the platform. pivot-bridge, subst. One form of swing-bridge, which moves on a vertical pivot beneath its mid length.