A casing on one side of the cylinder of an engine, which covers the nozzles or steam-ports, and confines the slide-valves.
A rod connecting the slide-valves of an engine, to both of which it is joined; it passes through the...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Case>>. II. Casing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Cash>>. III. Casing ·noun An inclosin...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The lining, veneering, or planking over a ship's timbers, especially for the cabin-beams; the sheath...
·noun A slide valve. II. Slide ·vt To pass inadvertently. III. Slide ·noun That which operates by ...
·noun One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. II. Valve ·noun One of the pieces o...
In the marine steam-engine is a steam-tight opening for the slide-valve rod to pass through. ...
To let go; as, 'that fish you have hooked is not fit to eat; let him slide.' ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Composed of two wide balks of elm on which the carronade carriage slides. As the slide is bolted to ...
The adaptations used in a marine-engine to change the admission of the steam into, and its eduction ...
·- ·see Snifting valve. ...
·- A kind of slide valve. ·see Slide valve, under <<Slide>>. ...
·add. ·- A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; ·esp., such a valve in a steam-e...
·- A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a...
·add. ·- A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand. ...
·add. ·- A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif....
·noun Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. ...
A valve by which the first vacuum necessary for starting a steam-engine is produced. ...
In a steamer's engine, is a flat metal plate filling up the passage between the air-pump and the con...
In the marine engine, is a valve covering the top of the barrel of the air-pump, opening when presse...
In the marine engine, a valve which shuts off the steam in its passage to the slide-valves, when the...
A flat plate of metal filling up the passage between the air-pump and condenser. The lower valve of ...
A conical valve on the top of the steam-chest, communicating with the boiler of a steam-engine, and ...
In the marine engine (see tail-valve). ...
A valve in the air-pump at the opposite side from the condenser, and connected with the latter by a ...
A valve in the steam-pipe of an engine for preventing the escape of steam, or regulating the velocit...
·- ·see under <<Valve>>. ...
A valve admitting steam into the condenser, in order to clear it of air and water before starting th...
A valve opening from the outside of a steamer's boiler, in order to allow air to enter the boiler wh...