Tandem engine

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• tandem

  tandem, adv. [tam and the demonstr. termination dem; prop. just so far; hence, transf. to time, afte...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• tandem

  tandem adv. tam+the demonstr. ending dem, at length, at last, in the end, finally : Tan...

  An Elementary Latin Dictionary

• Tandem

  ·noun A team of horses harnessed one before the other. II. Tandem ·add. ·noun A tandem bicycle or o...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• tandem

  A two-wheeled chaise, buggy, or noddy, drawn by two horses, one before the other: that is, AT LENGTH...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Engine

  ·vt To assault with an engine. II. Engine ·noun (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Engine

  a term applied exclusively to military affairs in the Bible. The engines to which the term is applie...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Tandem cart

  ·add. ·- A kind of two-wheeled vehicle with seats back to back, the front one somewhat elevated. ...

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• Tandem system

  ·add. ·- = Cascade system. ...

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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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• Steam engine

  ·- An engine moved by steam. ...

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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...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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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• Engine-type generator

  ·add. ·- A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine. ...

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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...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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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• single-action steam-engine

  See atmospheric steam-engine ...

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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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• 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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