·add. ·- In a variable expansion central-valve engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine.
·noun A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work. II. Relay ·vt To lay again; to l...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun The barrel of an air or other pump. II. Cylinder ·noun Any hollow body of cylindrical form. ...
The body of a pump; any tubular part of an engine. ♦ Charge cylinder of a gun, is the part which r...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle. ...
In the steam-engine, is a metal lid with a hole in the centre for the piston-rod to work through. ...
That made upon the improved method of charring the wood to be used as charcoal in iron cylinders. Al...
See cylinder. ...
An adaptation on the top of the piston-rod, stretching out athwart the cylinder, from the ends of wh...
Small conical valves at each end of the cylinder, for the purpose of letting off any water that may ...