, by its action on the gab-lever, which it catches either way, puts the engine into gear.
·adj ·Alt. of <<Excentrical>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
In a steam-engine, a wheel placed on the crank-shaft, having its centre on one side of the axis of t...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun An instrument for measuring. II. Rod ·noun A support for a fishing line; a fish pole. III. R...
The connecting and coupling bars of the steam-engine. (See sounding-rod.) ...
An auxiliary angle employed to abridge the calculations connected with the motion of a planet or com...
·- A plant with a tall flowering stem; ·esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod. I...
·- An usher in the legislature of British colonies. II. Black Rod ·- the usher to the Chapter of th...
·- ·see Gauge rod, under Gauge, ·noun. ...
·noun A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. Th...
·add. ·- A rod carrying a tappet or tappets, as one for closing the valves in a Cornish pumping engi...
·noun A rod used as a tie. ·see <<Tie>>. ...
·noun A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for bi...
In the marine engine, the part which connects the side-levers and the crank together. ...
A small iron rod with a hook at the end, which is put into the holes made in a vessel's side, to asc...
A graduated iron for sounding the pump-well. ...
A graduated indicator. ...
A rod which is firmly fixed in the piston by a key driven through both. ...
A Dutch measure of 12 English feet, formerly in use with us: it is more properly Rhine-land rod. ...
A slight rod of iron marked with feet and inches, which being let down by a line in a groove of the ...
A rod connecting the slide-valves of an engine, to both of which it is joined; it passes through the...