casing-cover

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• Casing

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Case>>. II. Casing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Cash>>. III. Casing ·noun An inclosin...

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• casing

  The lining, veneering, or planking over a ship's timbers, especially for the cabin-beams; the sheath...

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• Cover

  ·noun The lap of a slide valve. II. Cover ·vt To put the usual covering or headdress on. III. Cove...

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• cover

  pronounced CAUVER. An abbreviation of RECOVER. North. Cow, the moving top of the chimney of a hop-oa...

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• cover

  Security from attack or interruption, as under cover of the ship's guns, under cover of the parapet....

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• Cover crop

  ·add. ·- A catch crop planted, ·esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as ...

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• Cover-point

  ·noun The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point.". ...

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• Cover-shame

  ·noun Something used to conceal infamy. ...

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• boom-cover

  The tarpaulin, or painted, cover over the spars. ...

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• cylinder-cover

  In the steam-engine, is a metal lid with a hole in the centre for the piston-rod to work through. ...

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• slide-valve casing

  A casing on one side of the cylinder of an engine, which covers the nozzles or steam-ports, and conf...

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