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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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Steam
·noun Any exhalation.
II. Steam ·vi To emit steam or vapor.
III. Steam ·vt To <<Exhale>>.
IV. Ste...
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Engine
·vt To assault with an engine.
II. Engine ·noun (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity...
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Engine
a term applied exclusively to military affairs in the Bible. The engines to which the term is applie...
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single-action steam-engine
See atmospheric steam-engine
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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-crane
A crane worked by means of a steam-engine.
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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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Air engine
·- An engine driven by heated or by compressed air.
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Bogie engine
·add. ·- A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.
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Diesel engine
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Diesel motor.
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Engine-sized
·adj Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp;
— said of paper.
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Gas engine
·add. ·- A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any intern...
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Otto engine
·add. ·- An engine using the Otto cycle.
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Radial engine
·add. ·- An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type (the radial type) having...
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Radiant engine
·add. ·- A semiradial engine. ·see Radial engine, above.
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Semiradial engine
·add. ·- ·see Radial engine, above.
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Tandem engine
·add. ·- A steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in line, with a common piston rod.
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Trunk engine
·add. ·- An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines.
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Water engine
·- An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishi...
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blast-engine
A ventilating machine to draw off the foul air from the hold of a ship, and induce a current of fres...
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donkey-engine
An auxiliary steam-engine for feeding the boilers of the principal engine when they are stopped; or ...
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engine, marine
(See marine engines.)
Engine was of old a military machine for warfare.
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engine-bearers
Sleepers, or pieces of timber placed between the keelson, in a steamer, and the boilers of the steam...
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trunk-engine
A direct-acting steam-engine, in which the end of the connecting-rod is attached to the bottom of a ...
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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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Engine-type generator
·add. ·- A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.
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direct-acting engine
A steam engine in which the connecting rod is led at once from the head of the piston to the crank, ...
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double-acting engine
One in which the steam acts upon the piston against a vacuum, both in the upward and downward moveme...
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engine-room telegraph
A dial-contrivance by which the officer on deck can communicate with the engineer below.
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non-condensing engine
A high-pressure steam-engine.
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oscillating marine-engine
A steam-engine where the top of the piston-rod is coupled with the crank, and the piston-rod moves b...
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single-action engine
See atmospheric steam-engine.
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steam sloop-of-war
One commanded by a commander.
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London and Continental Steam Wharf
At 83 to 97 Lower East Smithfield, west of the Hermitage Entrance (P.O. Directory).
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cranks of a marine engine
; eccentric, as in a turning-lathe. The bend or knee pinned on the shafts, by which they are moved r...
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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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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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