{"id":43650,"date":"2026-01-22T17:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43650"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:16:36","slug":"word-of-the-day-1089","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/22\/word-of-the-day-1089\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Trunnion<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<b>trunnion<\/b>\u00a0(from\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Old French language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_French_language\">Old French<\/a>\u00a0<i><i lang=\"fro\"><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikt:trognon\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/trognon#Old_French\">trognon<\/a><\/i><\/i>\u00a0<span class=\"gloss-quot\">&#8216;<\/span><span class=\"gloss-text\">trunk<\/span><span class=\"gloss-quot\">&#8216;<\/span>)\u00a0is a\u00a0<a title=\"Cylinder\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cylinder\">cylindrical<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Boss (engineering)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boss_(engineering)\">protrusion<\/a>\u00a0used as a mounting or pivoting point. First associated with cannons, they are an important military development.<\/p>\n<p>In mechanical engineering (&#8230;), it is one part of a rotating joint where a shaft (the trunnion) is inserted into (and turns inside) a full or partial cylinder.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trunnion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, noted near the end of this <em><strong>Cruising the Cut<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d1firLMDVNI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trunnion: A\u00a0trunnion\u00a0(from\u00a0Old French\u00a0trognon\u00a0&#8216;trunk&#8216;)\u00a0is a\u00a0cylindrical\u00a0protrusion\u00a0used as a mounting or pivoting point. First associated with cannons, they are an important military development. In mechanical engineering (&#8230;), it is one part of a rotating joint where a shaft (the trunnion) is inserted into (and turns inside) a full or partial cylinder. [Wikipedia] Well, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/22\/word-of-the-day-1089\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43651,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650\/revisions\/43651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}