cylinder-cover

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• Cylinder

  ·noun The barrel of an air or other pump. II. Cylinder ·noun Any hollow body of cylindrical form. ...

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• cylinder

  The body of a pump; any tubular part of an engine. ♦ Charge cylinder of a gun, is the part which r...

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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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• Relay cylinder

  ·add. ·- In a variable expansion central-valve engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically ad...

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• cylinder powder

  That made upon the improved method of charring the wood to be used as charcoal in iron cylinders. Al...

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• steam-cylinder

  See cylinder. ...

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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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• casing-cover

  In the marine steam-engine is a steam-tight opening for the slide-valve rod to pass through. ...

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• cylinder cross-head

  An adaptation on the top of the piston-rod, stretching out athwart the cylinder, from the ends of wh...

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• cylinder escape-valves

  Small conical valves at each end of the cylinder, for the purpose of letting off any water that may ...

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