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Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid..

Separation :: Separation (n.) The operation of removing water from steam.

Standpoint :: Standpipe (n.) A supply pipe of sufficient elevation to enable the water to flow into the boiler, notwithstanding the pressure of the steam..

Indigested :: Indigested (a.) Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam..

Cleading :: Cleading (n.) A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine..

Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below)..

Port :: Port (n.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face..

Propeller :: Propeller (n.) A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel..

Steam :: Steam (v. t.) To exhale.

Felt :: Felt (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine..

Scald :: Scald (n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam..

Crosshead :: Crosshead (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead..

Stuff :: Stufa (n.) A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.

Engine :: Engine (v. t.) To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another..

Saloon :: Saloon (n.) A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat..

Sail :: Sail (n.) To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power..

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

Stean :: Steamy (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty..

Hiss :: Hiss (n.) The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove..

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