steam-crane

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• Crane

  ·add. ·noun The American blue heron (Ardea herodias). II. Crane ·noun A siphon, or bent pipe, for d...

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• Crane

  (Isa. 38:14; Jer. 8:7). In both of these passages the Authorized Version has reversed the Hebrew ord...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• The Crane

  1) A house in Crooked Lane demised 15 Chas. I. for the use of the parish of St. Michael (End. Ch. Re...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• crane

  n. common English bird-name. InAustralia used for (1) the Native-Companion (q.v.), Grusaustralianus...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• crane

  A machine for raising and lowering great weights, by which timber and stores are hoisted upon wharfs...

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• Crane

  The crane (Grus cinerea) is a native of Europe and Asia. It stand about four feet high. Its color is...

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• Steam

  ·noun Any exhalation. II. Steam ·vi To emit steam or vapor. III. Steam ·vt To <<Exhale>>. IV. Ste...

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• Titan crane

  ·add. ·- A massive crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting cra...

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• Water crane

  ·- A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotiv...

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• Crane Court

  1) West out of Lambeth Hill in Castle Baynard Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831). Between Peter's Hil...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• nankeen crane

  or Nankeen Bird, or Nankeen Night Heron n. the Australian bird Nycticorax caledonicus, Gmel. Both ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• crane-barge

  A low flat-floored lump, fitted for the purpose of carrying a crane, in aid of marine works. ...

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• crane-lines

  Those which formerly went from the spritsail-topmast to the middle of the fore-stay, serving to stea...

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• Steam engine

  ·- An engine moved by steam. ...

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• steam-chest

  The reservoir for steam above the water of the boiler; sometimes termed steam-chamber. ...

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• steam-cylinder

  See cylinder. ...

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• steam-frigate

  A large armed steamer commanded by a captain in the navy. ...

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• steam-hoist

  A machine in dockyards for driving piles, working pumps, &c. ...

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• steam navigation

  The management of vessels propelled by steam-power. ...

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• steam-packet

  A steamer employed in trading regularly between two places with goods and passengers. ...

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• steam-pipe

  See waste steam-pipe. ...

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• steam-ports

  Oblong passages leading from the nozzle-faces to the inside of the cylinder; by them the steam enter...

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• steam-ram

  A new order of war-vessel, fitted for running prow on against an enemy's ship, to stave her in by cr...

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• steam-tug

  A vessel fitted with a marine steam-engine, and expressly employed for towing ships. ...

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• steam-winch

  A machine for hoisting out cargo or working a ship's pumps. ...

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• Three Crane Stairs

  At the south end of Queen Street, on the Thames, in Vintry Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 13-Lockie...

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• Three Crane Street

  In Thames Street (Strype, ed. 1755). Not named in the maps. ...

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• Three Crane Tavern

  South out of Poultry, opposite St. Mildred's Church (Strype, maps, ed. 1720 and 1755). Cleared away...

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• atmospheric or single-action steam-engine

  A condensing machine, in which the downward stroke of the piston is performed by the pressure of the...

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• single-action steam-engine

  See atmospheric steam-engine ...

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• steam sloop-of-war

  One commanded by a commander. ...

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• Back Alley, Three Crane Lane

  A passage to the Thames out of Three Crane Lane (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). In Vintry Ward. The all...

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• London and Continental Steam Wharf

  At 83 to 97 Lower East Smithfield, west of the Hermitage Entrance (P.O. Directory). First mention: ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Irongate and St. Katherine's Steam Wharf

  East of Tower Wharf (P.O. Directory). Former name : "Irongate Wharf" (Horwood, 1799-to O.S. ed. 189...

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• frame of the marine steam-engine

  , is the strong supporter of the paddle-shafts and intermediate shaft; it rests on columns, and is f...

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• putting a steam-engine in gear

  This is said when the gab of the eccentric rod is allowed to fall upon its stud on the gab-lever. ...

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• throwing a steam-engine out of gear

  Disconnecting the eccentric rod from the gab-lever. ...

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• Carron and London and Continental Steam Wharves, Carron Co

  A Wharf on the Thames in East Smithfield, east of Alderman Stairs at 87 to 93 Lower East Smithfield ...

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