A steam-engine where the top of the piston-rod is coupled with the crank, and the piston-rod moves backward and forward in the direction of the axis of the cylinder, while its extremity revolves in a circle with the crank.
(See marine engines.) Engine was of old a military machine for warfare. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. II. Oscillating ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Oscillate>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·adj A picture representing some marine subject. II. Marine ·adj Formed by the action of the curren...
Belonging to the sea. It is a general name for the royal or mercantile navy of any state; also the w...
·vt To assault with an engine. II. Engine ·noun (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity...
a term applied exclusively to military affairs in the Bible. The engines to which the term is applie...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·add. ·- A current alternating in direction. ...
; eccentric, as in a turning-lathe. The bend or knee pinned on the shafts, by which they are moved r...
·adj Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers. ...
See Wellclose Square. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
An empty bottle: marine officers being held useless by the seamen. SEA WIT. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
An awkward lubberly person. One out of place. ...
A barometer, the tube of which is contracted in one part to prevent the sudden oscillations of the m...
Establishments at our different ports for carrying into effect the provisions of the Merchant Shippi...
Those constructed for making or preserving ships, as docks, arsenals, store-houses, &c. ...
Those steam engines which are used to propel ships, whether on the ocean or in rivers, in contradist...
, or jeffrey's glue. A well-known adhesive composition of great importance in ship carpentry, and ...
A contract by which an individual or a company agree to indemnify the losses or damages happening to...
A lake or inlet formed by the encroachments of the sea, and the deposits of fluviatile action. ...
An officer of the Royal Marines. Jocularly and witlessly applied to an empty bottle, as being "usele...
A term which has been applied to a slip for hauling vessels on to repair. ...
A general term for the iron-work, cordage, sails, provisions, and other outfit, with which a vessel ...
See marine. ...
·- An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. ...
·add. ·- A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck. ...
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Diesel motor. ...
·adj Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; — said of paper. ...
·add. ·- A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any intern...
·add. ·- An engine using the Otto cycle. ...
·add. ·- An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type (the radial type) having...
·add. ·- A semiradial engine. ·see Radial engine, above. ...
·add. ·- ·see Radial engine, above. ...
·- An engine moved by steam. ...
·add. ·- A steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in line, with a common piston rod. ...
·add. ·- An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines. ...
·- An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishi...
A ventilating machine to draw off the foul air from the hold of a ship, and induce a current of fres...
An auxiliary steam-engine for feeding the boilers of the principal engine when they are stopped; or ...
Sleepers, or pieces of timber placed between the keelson, in a steamer, and the boilers of the steam...
A direct-acting steam-engine, in which the end of the connecting-rod is attached to the bottom of a ...
, is the strong supporter of the paddle-shafts and intermediate shaft; it rests on columns, and is f...
A contrivance by which the pumps of a large vessel are worked, connected with a crank-shaft and fly-...
Formerly a select branch of the R. Marines, specially instructed in gunnery and the care of artiller...
Midshipman in the French navy. ...
See marine boards. ...
A compartment of the after-platform, to receive the clothes and stores of the royal marines. ...
A public fund accumulated by fees payable to the Board of Trade on account of the merchant shipping....
Originally selected from the royal marines, now specially enlisted. (See artillery, royal marine.) ...
·add. ·- A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine. ...
A condensing machine, in which the downward stroke of the piston is performed by the pressure of the...
A steam engine in which the connecting rod is led at once from the head of the piston to the crank, ...
One in which the steam acts upon the piston against a vacuum, both in the upward and downward moveme...
A dial-contrivance by which the officer on deck can communicate with the engineer below. ...
A high-pressure steam-engine. ...
See atmospheric steam-engine. ...
See atmospheric steam-engine ...
This is said when the gab of the eccentric rod is allowed to fall upon its stud on the gab-lever. ...
Disconnecting the eccentric rod from the gab-lever. ...