in the fireworks in England, the wooden spoke which is fixed to the barrel that draws the wire, and which, by its being forced back by the cogs of the wheel, is the occasion of the force with which the barrel is pulled.

SWITZ, or SCHWEITS, the capital of one of the cantons of Switzerland, to which it gives name, seated on the east side of the lake Lucerne, in N. Lat. 46° 55'. E. Long. 8° 30'.