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She just walked to the starting handles and grabbed them - lugers use them to rock back and forth on the sled to build momentum for the start - like she’s done every time.

She just walked to the starting handles and grabbed them — lugers use them to rock back and forth on the sled to build momentum for the start — like she’s done every time.

He once left it in gear, turned the starting handle and it ran him over.

"Eh va bene", he murmured through closed lips, and leaned forward grimly for the starting handle.

It is used to change the reciprocating movement of the piston into a rotary motion of the flywheel; it has a starting handle at one end and the flywheel at the other, as you observe.