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n The contrivance in a timepiece (winding wrist watch) which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.

n a mechanism found in devices such as a typewriter or printer which controls lateral motion of the carriage

n an escape or means of escape