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Sterquilinous :: Stern-wheeler (n.) A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.

Manometer :: Manometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump..

Exhaust :: Exhaust (n.) The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

Sectional :: Sectional (a.) Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler..

Distribution :: Distribution (n.) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission..

Separator :: Separator (n.) A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler..

Frigate :: Frigate (n.) Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely incre

Incrustation :: Incrustation (n.) A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler..

Scale :: Scale (n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler..

Teamed :: Teamed (a.) Yoked in, or as in, a team..

Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass..

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

Air Pump :: Air pump () A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air..

Booking Clerk :: Booking clerk () A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office..

Wiredraw :: Wiredraw (v. t.) To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction..

Steamer :: Steamer (n.) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.

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..

Steamboating :: Steamboat (n.) A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers..

Jarring :: "Jarring (n.) A shaking; a tremulous motion; as, the jarring of a steamship, caused by its engines..

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