Pilot valve

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• Pilot

  ·noun The cowcatcher of a locomotive. II. Pilot ·noun An instrument for detecting the compass error...

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• pilot

  An experienced person charged with the ship's course near the coasts, into roads, rivers, &c., and t...

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• Valve

  ·noun One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. II. Valve ·noun One of the pieces o...

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• Branch pilot

  ·- A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation. ...

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• Cow-pilot

  ·noun A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); ...

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• Pilot balloon

  ·add. ·- A small, unmanned balloon sent up to indicate the direction of air currents. ...

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• Pilot flag

  ·add. ·- The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot, in the United States the union j...

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• Pilot lamp

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Pilot light. ...

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• Pilot light

  ·add. ·- A small incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by ...

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• Pilot wheel

  ·add. ·- A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of ...

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• Sky pilot

  ·add. ·- A person licensed as a pilot. ...

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• pilot-bird

  n. This name is given toa sea-bird of the Caribbean Islands. In Australia itis applied to Pycnoptil...

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• branch-pilot

  One approved by the Trinity House, and holding a branch, for a particular navigation. ...

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• coasting pilot

  A pilot who has become sufficiently acquainted with the nature of any particular coast, to conduct a...

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• pilot cutter

  A very handy sharp-built sea-boat used by pilots. ...

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• pilot-fish

  ♦ Naucrates ductor, a member of the Scomber family, the attendant on the shark. ...

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• Blow valve

  ·- ·see Snifting valve. ...

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• D valve

  ·- A kind of slide valve. ·see Slide valve, under <<Slide>>. ...

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• Foot valve

  ·add. ·- A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; ·esp., such a valve in a steam-e...

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• Kingston valve

  ·- A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a...

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• Shunt valve

  ·add. ·- A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif....

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• Valve-shell

  ·noun Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. ...

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• blow-valve

  A valve by which the first vacuum necessary for starting a steam-engine is produced. ...

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• bucket-valve

  In a steamer's engine, is a flat metal plate filling up the passage between the air-pump and the con...

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• discharge-valve

  In the marine engine, is a valve covering the top of the barrel of the air-pump, opening when presse...

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• expansion-valve

  In the marine engine, a valve which shuts off the steam in its passage to the slide-valves, when the...

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• foot-valve

  A flat plate of metal filling up the passage between the air-pump and condenser. The lower valve of ...

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• safety-valve

  A conical valve on the top of the steam-chest, communicating with the boiler of a steam-engine, and ...

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• snifting-valve

  In the marine engine (see tail-valve). ...

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• tail-valve

  A valve in the air-pump at the opposite side from the condenser, and connected with the latter by a ...

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• throttle-valve

  A valve in the steam-pipe of an engine for preventing the escape of steam, or regulating the velocit...

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• Double-beat valve

  ·- ·see under <<Valve>>. ...

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• blow-through valve

  A valve admitting steam into the condenser, in order to clear it of air and water before starting th...

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• internal safety-valve

  A valve opening from the outside of a steamer's boiler, in order to allow air to enter the boiler wh...

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• slide-valve casing

  A casing on one side of the cylinder of an engine, which covers the nozzles or steam-ports, and conf...

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• slide-valve rod

  A rod connecting the slide-valves of an engine, to both of which it is joined; it passes through the...

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