Woodruff key


noun Machinery.

a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.

Origin of Woodruff key

apparently after the proper name

British Dictionary definitions for woodruff key

Woodruff key
/ (ˈwʊdrʌf) /

noun engineering

a semicircular key restrained in a curved keyway in a shaft

Word Origin for Woodruff key

C19: named after the Woodruff Manufacturing Co, in Hartford, Connecticut, who first manufactured it in 1892