Device to Connect a Gearbox to a Vehicle's Engine
This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from World of Books, Group 295, Puzzle 5 (Leather Bound Books).
Question is: Device to Connect a Gearbox to a Vehicle's Engine
and the answer is: CLUTCH
Word Meaning:
CLUTCH — (transitive) To seize, as though with claws.
Definitions from Wiktionary.