·add. ·- An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines.
A direct-acting steam-engine, in which the end of the connecting-rod is attached to the bottom of a ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun The proboscis of an <<Insect>>. II. Trunk ·noun The proboscis of an <<Elephant>>. III. Trunk...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A nose. How fares your old trunk? does your nose still stand fast? an allusion to the proboscis or t...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
(See rudder-trunk.) Also, a large species of turtle. Also, a place for keeping fish in. Also, an iro...
·vt To assault with an engine. II. Engine ·noun (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity...
a term applied exclusively to military affairs in the Bible. The engines to which the term is applie...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·add. ·- In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of...
·add. ·- A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, b...
A casing of wood fitted or boxed firmly into a cavity in the vessel's counter, called the helm port,...
A name of the Ostracion, a fish remarkable for having its body encased in an inflexible armour of ha...
·- An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. ...
·add. ·- A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck. ...
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Diesel motor. ...
·adj Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; — said of paper. ...
·add. ·- A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any intern...
·add. ·- An engine using the Otto cycle. ...
·add. ·- An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type (the radial type) having...
·add. ·- A semiradial engine. ·see Radial engine, above. ...
·add. ·- ·see Radial engine, above. ...
·- An engine moved by steam. ...
·add. ·- A steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in line, with a common piston rod. ...
·- An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishi...
A ventilating machine to draw off the foul air from the hold of a ship, and induce a current of fres...
An auxiliary steam-engine for feeding the boilers of the principal engine when they are stopped; or ...
(See marine engines.) Engine was of old a military machine for warfare. ...
Sleepers, or pieces of timber placed between the keelson, in a steamer, and the boilers of the steam...
·add. ·- A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine. ...
A condensing machine, in which the downward stroke of the piston is performed by the pressure of the...
A steam engine in which the connecting rod is led at once from the head of the piston to the crank, ...
One in which the steam acts upon the piston against a vacuum, both in the upward and downward moveme...
A dial-contrivance by which the officer on deck can communicate with the engineer below. ...
A high-pressure steam-engine. ...
A steam-engine where the top of the piston-rod is coupled with the crank, and the piston-rod moves b...
See atmospheric steam-engine. ...
See atmospheric steam-engine ...
A strong compartment in the middle of the hold, open to the deck, but lined with lead on every side,...
; eccentric, as in a turning-lathe. The bend or knee pinned on the shafts, by which they are moved r...
, is the strong supporter of the paddle-shafts and intermediate shaft; it rests on columns, and is f...
This is said when the gab of the eccentric rod is allowed to fall upon its stud on the gab-lever. ...
Disconnecting the eccentric rod from the gab-lever. ...