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Double-acting
·adj Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a d...
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direct-acting engine
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Acting
·adj Operating in any way.
II. Acting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Act>>.
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Engine
·vt To assault with an engine.
II. Engine ·noun (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity...
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Engine
a term applied exclusively to military affairs in the Bible. The engines to which the term is applie...
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Double
·adv Twice; doubly.
II. Double ·noun Double beer; strong beer.
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double
To tip any one the double; to run away in his or her debt.
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Direct-acting
·adj Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
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Self-acting
·adj Acting of or by one's self or by itself;
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Single-acting
·adj Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one...
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acting commission
When a commissioned officer is invalided, his vacancy is filled up pending the pleasure of the admir...
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Air engine
·- An engine driven by heated or by compressed air.
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Bogie engine
·add. ·- A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.
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Diesel engine
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Diesel motor.
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Engine-sized
·adj Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp;
— said of paper.
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Gas engine
·add. ·- A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any intern...
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Otto engine
·add. ·- An engine using the Otto cycle.
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Radial engine
·add. ·- An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type (the radial type) having...
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Radiant engine
·add. ·- A semiradial engine. ·see Radial engine, above.
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Semiradial engine
·add. ·- ·see Radial engine, above.
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Steam engine
·- An engine moved by steam.
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Tandem engine
·add. ·- A steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in line, with a common piston rod.
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Trunk engine
·add. ·- An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines.
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Water engine
·- An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishi...
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blast-engine
A ventilating machine to draw off the foul air from the hold of a ship, and induce a current of fres...
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donkey-engine
An auxiliary steam-engine for feeding the boilers of the principal engine when they are stopped; or ...
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engine, marine
(See marine engines.)
Engine was of old a military machine for warfare.
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engine-bearers
Sleepers, or pieces of timber placed between the keelson, in a steamer, and the boilers of the steam...
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trunk-engine
A direct-acting steam-engine, in which the end of the connecting-rod is attached to the bottom of a ...
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Double dealer
·- One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.
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Double dealing
·- False or deceitful dealing. ·see Double dealing, under <<Dealing>>.
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Double first
·- A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
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Double pedro
·add. ·- Cinch (the game).
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Double-bank
·vt To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
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Double-banked
·adj Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being ...
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Double-barreled
·adj ·Alt. of Double-barrelled.
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Double-barrelled
·adj Having two barrels;
— applied to a gun.
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Double-breasted
·adj Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, ...
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Double-charge
·vt To <<Overcharge>>.
II. Double-charge ·vt To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.
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Double-decker
·noun A man-of-war having two gun decks.
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Double-dye
·vt To dye again or twice over.
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Double-dyed
·adj Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a d...
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Double-ender
·noun A locomotive with pilot at each end.
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Double-entendre
·noun A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or in...
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Double-eyed
·adj Having a deceitful look.
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Double-faced
·adj Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
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Double-handed
·adj Having two hands.
II. Double-handed ·adj Deceitful; deceptive.
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Double-headed
·adj Having two heads; bicipital.
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Double-hung
·adj Having both sashes hung with weights and cords;
— said of a window.
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Double-lock
·vt To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
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Double-milled
·adj Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine;
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Double-quick
·noun Double-quick time, step, or march.
II. Double-quick ·vi & ·vt To move, or cause to move, in d...
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Double-ripper
·noun A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the othe...
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Double-shade
·vt To double the natural darkness of (a place).
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Double-surfaced
·add. ·adj Having two surfaces;
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Double-tongue
·noun Deceit; duplicity.
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Double-tongued
·adj Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
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Double-tonguing
·noun A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rap...
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double jug
A man's backside. Cotton's Virgil.
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double, to
To cover a ship with an extra planking, usually of 4 inches, either internally or externally, when t...
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double-banked
When two opposite oars are pulled by rowers seated on the same thwart; or when there are two men lab...
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double-bitted
Two turns of the cable round the bitts instead of one.
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double-block
One fitted with a couple of sheaves, in holes side by side.
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double-breeching
Additional breeching on the non-recoil system, or security for guns in heavy weather.
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double-capstan
One shaft so constructed as to be worked both on an upper and lower deck, as in ships of the line, o...
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double-crown
A name given to a plait made with the strands of a rope, which forms part of several useful and orna...
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double dutch coiled against the sun
Gibberish, or any unintelligible or difficult language.
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double eagle
A gold coin of the United States, of 10 dollars; value £2, 1 s. 8 d., at the average rate of exchang...
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double-futtocks
Timbers in the cant-bodies, extending from the dead-wood to the run of the second futtock-head.
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double insurance
Where the insured makes two insurances on the same risks and the same interest.
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double-ironed
Both legs shackled to the bilboe-bolts.
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double-jack
See jack-screw.
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double-land
That appearance of a coast when the sea-line is bounded by parallel ranges of hills, rising inland o...
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double-sided
A line-of-battle ship painted so as to show the ports of both decks; or a vessel painted to resemble...
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double-star
Two stars so close together as to be separable only with a telescope. They are either optically so o...
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double-tide
Working double-tides is doing extra duty. (See work double-tides, to.)
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double-whip
A whip is simply a rope rove through a single block; a double whip is when it passes through a lower...
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star, double
See double-star.
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Engine-type generator
·add. ·- A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.
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atmospheric or single-action steam-engine
A condensing machine, in which the downward stroke of the piston is performed by the pressure of the...
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engine-room telegraph
A dial-contrivance by which the officer on deck can communicate with the engineer below.
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non-condensing engine
A high-pressure steam-engine.
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oscillating marine-engine
A steam-engine where the top of the piston-rod is coupled with the crank, and the piston-rod moves b...
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single-action engine
See atmospheric steam-engine.
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Double-beat valve
·- ·see under <<Valve>>.
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Double Hand Court
See Double Hood Court.
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Double Hood Court
North out of Upper Thames Street by Campion Lane in Dowgate Ward (Boyle, 1799).
First mention: O. a...
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double deck-nails
See deck-nails.
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double-headed maul
One with double faces; top-mauls in contradistinction to pin-mauls.
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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double-image micrometer
Has one of its lenses divided, and separable to a certain distance by a screw, which at the same tim...
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double upon, to
See doubling upon.
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double wall-knot
With or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a ...
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physical double-star
See double-star and binary system.
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double cocoa-nut
See sea cocoa-nut
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single-action steam-engine
See atmospheric steam-engine
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East Smithfield Double Passage
On Tower Hill (Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in the maps.
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work double-tides, to
Implying that the work of three days is done in two, or at least two tides' work in twenty-four hour...
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cranks of a marine engine
; eccentric, as in a turning-lathe. The bend or knee pinned on the shafts, by which they are moved r...
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double-bank a rope, to
To clap men on both sides.
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frame of the marine steam-engine
, is the strong supporter of the paddle-shafts and intermediate shaft; it rests on columns, and is f...
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putting a steam-engine in gear
This is said when the gab of the eccentric rod is allowed to fall upon its stud on the gab-lever.
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throwing a steam-engine out of gear
Disconnecting the eccentric rod from the gab-lever.
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