The adaptations used in a marine-engine to change the admission of the steam into, and its eduction from, the cylinder, by the upper and lower steam-ports alternately.
See under their respective particular names. ...
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
In marine engines. (See cylinder escape-valves.) ...
The same with escape-valves. ...
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 ...
Small conical valves at each end of the cylinder, for the purpose of letting off any water that may ...
A casing on one side of the cylinder of an engine, which covers the nozzles or steam-ports, and conf...
A rod connecting the slide-valves of an engine, to both of which it is joined; it passes through the...