In a steamer's engine, is a flat metal plate filling up the passage between the air-pump and the condenser, and acted upon by both in admitting or repressing the passage of water.
·noun The valved piston of a lifting pump. II. Bucket ·add. ·vt To ride (a horse) hard or merciless...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A vessel to draw water with (Isa. 40:15); used figuratively, probably, of a numerous issue (Num. 24:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
To kick the bucket; to die. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A small globe of hoops, covered with canvas, used as a recall for the boats of whalers. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. II. Valve ·noun One of the pieces o...
·- An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stock...
A foul feeder, one that eats much greasy food. ...
That which is tied to a bucket for drawing water up from alongside. ...
A bucket kept in the tops, to grease the masts, sheets, &c., to make all run smoothly. ...
·- ·see Snifting valve. ...
·- A kind of slide valve. ·see Slide valve, under <<Slide>>. ...
·add. ·- A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; ·esp., such a valve in a steam-e...
·- A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a...
·add. ·- A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand. ...
·add. ·- A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif....
·noun Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. ...
A valve by which the first vacuum necessary for starting a steam-engine is produced. ...
In the marine engine, is a valve covering the top of the barrel of the air-pump, opening when presse...
In the marine engine, a valve which shuts off the steam in its passage to the slide-valves, when the...
A flat plate of metal filling up the passage between the air-pump and condenser. The lower valve of ...
A conical valve on the top of the steam-chest, communicating with the boiler of a steam-engine, and ...
In the marine engine (see tail-valve). ...
A valve in the air-pump at the opposite side from the condenser, and connected with the latter by a ...
A valve in the steam-pipe of an engine for preventing the escape of steam, or regulating the velocit...
To die. He kicked the bucket one day: he died one day. To kick the clouds before the hotel door; i.e...
·- ·see under <<Valve>>. ...
A valve admitting steam into the condenser, in order to clear it of air and water before starting th...
A valve opening from the outside of a steamer's boiler, in order to allow air to enter the boiler wh...
A casing on one side of the cylinder of an engine, which covers the nozzles or steam-ports, and conf...
A rod connecting the slide-valves of an engine, to both of which it is joined; it passes through the...
To expire; an inconsiderate phrase for dying. ...