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Physeter :: Physeter (n.) A filtering machine operated by air pressure.

Capstan :: Capstan (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket..

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals..

Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press..

Onager :: Onager (n.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery..

Ecraseur :: Ecraseur (n.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack..

Cooperated :: Cooperated (imp. & p. p.) of Cooperat.

Butteris :: Butteris (n.) A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses..

Siren :: Siren (n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

Feeder :: Feeder (n.) An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.

Air Brake :: Air brake () A railway brake operated by condensed air.

Chuck :: Chuck (n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon..

Crown-saw :: Crown-saw (n.) A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion..

Windmill :: Windmill (n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft..

Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap..

Mechanical :: Mechanical (a.) Made and operated by interaction of forces without a directing intelligence; as, a mechanical universe..

Key :: Key (n.) An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place..

Thermodynamic :: Thermodynamic (a.) Relating to thermodynamics; caused or operated by force due to the application of heat.

Atmospherical :: Atmospherical (a.) Caused, or operated on, by the atmosphere; as, an atmospheric effect; an atmospheric engine..

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