blow-through valve | The Sailor's Word-Book

Related Words

Blow valve
·- ·see Snifting valve. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
blow-valve
A valve by which the first vacuum necessary for starting a steam-engine is produced. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Through
·prep By means of; by the agency of. II. Through ·adv From beginning to end; as, to read a letter t...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Valve
·noun One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. II. Valve ·noun One of the pieces o...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Blow
·noun The spouting of a whale. II. Blow ·vt To inflate, as with pride; to puff up. III. Blow ·vi T...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
blow
He has bit the blow, i.e. he has stolen the goods. Cant. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
blow
I. n. stroke of the shears in sheep-shearing. 1890. `The Argus,' September 20, p. 13, col. 7: «T...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
to blow
1) To taunt; to ridicule. 2) To turn informer on an accomplice. BLOW 3) A gale of wind. Ex. A hea...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
blow
I. Applied to the breathing of whales and other cetaceans. The expired air from the lungs being hi...

The Sailor's Word-Book
through all
Carrying canvas in heavy squalls without starting a stitch. It demands not only courage, but seamanl...

The Sailor's Word-Book
through fastenings
Applied to bolts and tree-nails driven through both the timber and plank of the sides. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
through-pieces
See graving-pieces. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
D valve
·- A kind of slide valve. ·see Slide valve, under <<Slide>>. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Foot valve
·add. ·- A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; ·esp., such a valve in a steam-e...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Kingston valve
·- A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Pilot valve
·add. ·- A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Shunt valve
·add. ·- A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif....

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Valve-shell
·noun Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
bucket-valve
In a steamer's engine, is a flat metal plate filling up the passage between the air-pump and the con...

The Sailor's Word-Book
discharge-valve
In the marine engine, is a valve covering the top of the barrel of the air-pump, opening when presse...

The Sailor's Word-Book
expansion-valve
In the marine engine, a valve which shuts off the steam in its passage to the slide-valves, when the...

The Sailor's Word-Book
foot-valve
A flat plate of metal filling up the passage between the air-pump and condenser. The lower valve of ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
safety-valve
A conical valve on the top of the steam-chest, communicating with the boiler of a steam-engine, and ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
snifting-valve
In the marine engine (see tail-valve). ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
tail-valve
A valve in the air-pump at the opposite side from the condenser, and connected with the latter by a ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
throttle-valve
A valve in the steam-pipe of an engine for preventing the escape of steam, or regulating the velocit...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Blow-off
·adj as, a blow-off cock or pipe. II. Blow-off ·noun A blowing off steam, water, ·etc.;. III. Blow...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Blow-out
·noun The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, ·etc., by a blast of steam. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
By-blow
·noun An illegitimate child; a bastard. II. By-blow ·noun A side or incidental blow; an accidental ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
blow-up
A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bye blow
A bastard. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
to blow over
Said properly of a storm; and hence generally, to pass away without effect. This metaphor is very co...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
to blow up
To scold, to abuse, either in speaking or writing. A vulgar expression borrowed from sailor's langua...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
blow-up
A quarrel; a dispute. A common expression, used in familiar conversation. There was a regular blow-...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
blow out
A feast; also called a tuck out. Both expressions are English as well as American. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
blow-milk
skimmed milk, perhaps blue milk ; milk when closely skimmed being of a blueish colour. N. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
blow-holes
The nostrils of the cetaceans, situated on the highest part of the head. In the whalebone whales the...

The Sailor's Word-Book
blow home
The wind does not cease or moderate till it comes past that place, blowing continuously over the lan...

The Sailor's Word-Book
blow-out
Extravagant feasting regardless of consequences. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
blow-pipe
An engine of offence used by the Araucanians and Borneans, and with the latter termed sumpitan: the ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
heaving through all
The surging or slipping of the cable when the nippers do not hold. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
through the fleet
A seaman's being sentenced by court-martial to be towed by a boat from every ship through the fleet,...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Double-beat valve
·- ·see under <<Valve>>. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
internal safety-valve
A valve opening from the outside of a steamer's boiler, in order to allow air to enter the boiler wh...

The Sailor's Word-Book
slide-valve casing
A casing on one side of the cylinder of an engine, which covers the nozzles or steam-ports, and conf...

The Sailor's Word-Book
slide-valve rod
A rod connecting the slide-valves of an engine, to both of which it is joined; it passes through the...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Blow Bladder Street
North-west from Cheapside to Newgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Ward Within (O. and M...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
to blow the grounsils
To lie with a woman on the floor. Cant. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
to blow the gab
To confess, or impeach a confederate. Cant. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
blow off, to
To clear up in the clouds. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
blow-off-pipe
, in a steamer, is a pipe at the foot of each boiler, communicating with the sea, and furnished with...

The Sailor's Word-Book
blow the gaff
To reveal a secret; to expose or inform against a person. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
blow up, to
To abuse angrily. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
to go through the mill
A metaphor alluding to grain which has been through the mill. A Western editor observed that the mai...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
going through the fleet
A cruel punishment, long happily abolished. The victim was sentenced to receive a certain portion of...

The Sailor's Word-Book
automatic blow-off apparatus
See blow-off-pipe. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
blow over, (it will)
Said of a gale which is expected to pass away quickly. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
sh-t-ng through the teeth
Vomiting. Hark ye, friend, have you got a padlock on your a-se, that you sh-te through your teeth? V...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose