hydraulic press

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• Hydraulic

  ·adj Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an ...

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• Press

  ·noun Specifically, a printing press. II. Press ·noun The act of pressing or thronging forward. II...

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• hydraulic dock

  See caisson. ...

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• hydraulic purchase

  A machine for drawing up vessels on a slip, in which the pumping of water is used to multiply the fo...

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• Bramah press

  ·- A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. ·see under <<Hydrostat...

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• Drill press

  ·- A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a sc...

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• Press cake

  ·add. ·- A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compr...

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• Press proof

  ·add. ·- The last proof for correction before sending to press. II. Press proof ·add. ·- A proof ta...

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• Press revise

  ·add. ·- A proof for final revision. ...

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• Press work

  ·add. ·- The work of a press agent. ...

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• Wine-press

  Consisted of two vats or receptacles, (1) a trough (Heb. gath, Gr. lenos) into which the grapes were...

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• spade-press

  n. a make-shift wool-press inwhich the fleeces are rammed down with a spade. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood...

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• bible-press

  A hand rolling-board for cartridges, rocket, and port-fire cases. ...

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• hot-press

  When the press-gangs were instructed, on imminent emergency, to impress seamen, regardless of the pr...

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• press, to

  To reduce an enemy to straits. (See impressment.) ...

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• press-gang

  A party of seamen who (under the command of a lieutenant) were formerly empowered, in time of war, t...

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• over-press, to

  To carry too much sail on a ship. ...

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• press of sail

  As much sail as the state of the wind, &c., will permit a ship to carry. ...

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