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Teache :: Teache (n.) One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series..

Downcome :: Downcome (n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned..

Caldron :: Caldron (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.].

Copper :: Copper (n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers..

Fur :: Fur (n.) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.

Furnace :: Furnace (n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc..

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

Boiler :: Boiler (n.) One who boils.

Dome :: Dome (n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc..

Brace :: Brace (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

Priming :: Priming (n.) The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder..

Explosion :: Explosion (n.) A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc..

Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.

Pipkin :: Pipkin (n.) A small earthen boiler.

Hydrostat :: Hydrostat (n.) A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.

Furring :: Furring (v. t.) A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit..

Boiler :: Boiler (n.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations..

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..

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