MOVEMENT, in its popular use among us, signifies all the inner works of a watch, clock, or other engine, which move, and by that motion carry on the design of the instrument.
The movement of a clock or watch is the inside, or that part which measures the time, strikes, &c. exclusive of the frame, case, dial plate, &c.
The parts common to both of these movements are, the main-spring, with its appurtenances; lying in the spring box, and in the middle thereof lapping about the spring-arbor, to which one end of it is fastened. A-top of the spring-arbor is the endless screw and its wheel; but in spring clocks, this is a ratchet-wheel with its click, that stops it. That which the main-spring draws, and round which the chain or string is wrapped, is called the fusy; this is ordinarily taper; in large works, going with weights, it is cylindrical, and called the barrel. The small teeth at the bottom of the fusy or barrel, which stop it in winding up, is called the ratchet; and that which stops it when wound up, and is for that end driven up by the spring, the garden-gut. The wheels are various: the parts of a wheel are, the hoop or rim, the teeth, the cross, and the collet or piece of brass soldered on the arbor or spindle whereon the wheel is rivetted. The little wheels playing in the teeth of the larger are called pinions; and their teeth, which are 4, 5, 6, 8, &c. are called levers; the ends of the spindle are called piots; and the guttered wheel, with iron spikes at bottom, wherein the line of ordinary clocks runs, the pulley. We need not say any thing of the hand, screws, wedges, stops, &c. See WHEEL, FUSY, &c.