A rod which is firmly fixed in the piston by a key driven through both.
·noun A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consist...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
In the marine steam-engine, a metal disc fitting the bore of the cylinder, and made to slide up and ...
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.) ...
·add. ·- A spring packing ring, or any of several such rings, for a piston. ...
·add. ·- In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of...
·- 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. ...
, by its action on the gab-lever, which it catches either way, puts the engine into gear. ...
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 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 ...
·noun A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sli...
·pl of Cornet-a-piston. ...
A rod connecting the slide-valves of an engine, to both of which it is joined; it passes through the...