A rod connecting the slide-valves of an engine, to both of which it is joined; it passes through the casing cover, the opening of which is kept steam-tight.
A casing on one side of the cylinder of an engine, which covers the nozzles or steam-ports, and conf...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A slide valve. II. Slide ·vt To pass inadvertently. III. Slide ·noun That which operates by ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·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.) ...
·noun One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. II. Valve ·noun One of the pieces o...
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 ...
·- 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 rod which is firmly fixed in the piston by a key driven through both. ...
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 ...
·- ·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...