Spark coil

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• Spark

  ·noun A brisk, showy, gay man. II. Spark ·noun A lover; a gallant; a beau. III. Spark ·vi To <<Spa...

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• spark

  A spruce, trim, or smart fellow. A man that is always thirsty, is said to have a spark in his throat...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Coil

  ·noun A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion. II. Coil ·noun Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplex...

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• coil

  a hen-coil, a hen-pen. N. Coil also signifies in the North, a great stir, and a lump on the head by ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• coil

  A certain quantity of rope laid up in ring fashion. The manner in which all ropes are disposed of on...

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• Jump spark

  ·add. ·- A spark produced by the jumping of electricity across a permanent gap. ...

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• Spark gap

  ·add. ·- The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an el...

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• Spark plug

  ·add. ·- In internal-combustion engines with electric ignition, a plug, screwed into the cylinder he...

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• to spark it

  To court. Used chiefly in New England. You were a nation sight wiser than brother Jonathan, sister ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Choking coil

  ·add. ·- A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to ...

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• Inductance coil

  ·add. ·- A choking coil. ...

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• Reactance coil

  ·add. ·- A choking coil. ...

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• Ruhmkorff's coil

  ·- ·see Induction coil, under <<Induction>>. ...

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• Tesla coil

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Tesla transformer. ...

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• weather-coil

  When a ship has her head brought about, so as to lie that way which her stern did before, as by the ...

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• cable, to coil a

  To lay it in fakes and tiers one over the other. ♦ To lay a cable. (See laying.) ♦ To pay cheap ...

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