A valve in the steam-pipe of an engine for preventing the escape of steam, or regulating the velocity of its passage from the boiler to the cylinder.
·noun The throttle valve. II. Throttle ·noun The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand. III. Throttle ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The throat, or gullet. to throttle To strangle. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·noun One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. II. Valve ·noun One of the pieces o...
·- ·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. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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 ...
·- ·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...
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...