small end

English

Noun

small end (plural small ends)

1. The end of a connecting rod in a internal combustion engine that is connected to a piston.

   Antonym: big end (at the end connected to the crankshaft)

   • 1958 April, “British Railways First Main-Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:

     The connecting rods are one-piece forgings of alloy steel with a copper/lead steel-backed bearing at the large end and a phosphor-bronze bush at the small end. Oil is carried from the big end to the small end by a centrally drilled oil hole.