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Brake
·- imp. of Break. II. Brake ·vt A sharp bit or snaffle. III. Brake ·vt A baker's kneading though. ...

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brake
1) The common name for fern. In Sweden the female fern is called bracken. In the north of England it...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
brake
a bush, N. ...

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brake
The handle or lever by which a common ship-pump is usually worked. It operates by means of two iron ...

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Pump
·noun A low shoe with a thin sole. II. Pump ·vi To work, or raise water, a pump. III. Pump ·vt To ...

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pump
A thin shoe. To pump; to endeavour to draw a secret from any one without his perceiving it. Your pum...

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pump
A well-known machine used for drawing water from the sea, or discharging it from the ship's pump-wel...

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Air brake
·- A railway brake operated by condensed air. ...

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cane-brake
A thicket of canes. They abound in the low lands of Louisiana and Mississippi. ...

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cypress-brake
A basin-shaped depression of land near the margin of shallow, sluggish bayous, into which the supera...

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Air pump
·- A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and a...

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Chain pump
·- A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dip...

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Force pump
·- A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the...

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Hogger-pump
·noun The for pump in the pit. ...

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Sprengel pump
·- A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow t...

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Aldgate Pump
Taken down 1876 and a drinking fountain erected on the site. There was a well called " Alegate well...

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Pump Court
1) On the north side of Skinner Street at No.62 Snow Hill (Lockie, iS16). Removed for the formation ...

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Pump Yard
1) South-west out of Gravel Lane, not far from the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward Without. In Portsoke...

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pump water
He was christened in pump water; commonly said of a person that has a red face. ...

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purser's pump
A bassoon: from its likeness to a syphon, called a purser's pump. ...

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air-pump
An apparatus to remove the water and gases accumulating in the condenser while the engine is at work...

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bilge-pump
A small pump used for carrying off the water which may lodge about the lee-bilge, so as not to be un...

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burr-pump
A name of the bilge-pump. ...

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chain-pump
This is composed of two long metal tubes let down through the decks somewhat apart from each other, ...

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dutch pump
A punishment so contrived that, if the prisoner would not pump hard, he was drowned. ...

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feed-pump
The contrivance by which the boilers of a steamer are supplied with water from the hot-well, while t...

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forcing-pump
Any pump used to force water beyond that force demanded to deliver at its level, as fire-engines, &c...

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hand-pump
The common movable pump for obtaining fresh water, &c., from tanks or casks. ...

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head-pump
A small pump fixed at the vessel's bow, its lower end communicating with the sea: it is mostly used ...

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monkey-pump
Straws or quills for sucking the liquid from a cask, through a gimlet-hole made for the purpose a pr...

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pump-barrel
The wooden tube which forms the body of the machine, and wherein the piston moves. ...

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pump-bolts
Saucer-headed bolts to attach the brake to the pump-standard and pump-spear. ...

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pump-carlines
The framing or partners on the upper deck, between which the pumps pass into the wells. ...

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pump-chains
The chains to which the discs, &c., are attached in the chain-pump. ...

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pump-cisterns
Are used to prevent chips and other matters getting to, and fouling the action of, the chain-pumps. ...

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pump-coat
A piece of stout canvas nailed to the pump-partners where it enters the upper deck, and lashed to th...

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pump-dales
Pipes or long wooden spouts extending from the chain-pumps across the ship, and through each side, s...

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pump-foot
The lower part, or well-end, of a pump. ...

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pump-gear
A term implying any materials requisite for fitting or repairing the pumps, as boxes, leather, &c. ...

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pump-hook
An iron rod with an eye and a hook, used for drawing out the lower pump-box when requisite. ...

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pump ship!
The order to the crew to work the pumps to clear the hold of water. ...

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pump-spear
The rod of iron to which the upper box is attached and to the upper end of which the brake is pinned...

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pump sucks
The pump sucks is said when, all the water being drawn out of the well, and air admitted, there come...

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pump-tacks
Small iron or copper tacks, used for nailing the leather on the pump-boxes. ...

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Pump Court, Alley
Near Whitecross Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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fetching the pump
Pouring water into the upper part in order to expel the air contained between the lower box and that...

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oscillating pump-spear
A contrivance by which the pumps of a large vessel are worked, connected with a crank-shaft and fly-...

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Pump in Lime Street
Set up in 1576 partly at the charges of the parish of St. Andrew) partly at the charges of the Chamb...

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Pump Yard, Townsend Lane
See Pump Court. ...

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barrel of a pump
The wooden tube which forms the body of the engine. ...

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ears of a pump
The support of the bolt for the handle or break. ...

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hood of a pump
A frame covering the upper wheel of a chain-pump. ...

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New Pump Court, Moor Lane
See Pump Court. ...

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Pump in Bishopsgate Ward Within
" A pump where sometimes was a fayre wel with two buckets by the east end of St. Martin Outwich" (S....

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