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Throw :: Throw (n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston..

Travel :: Travel (n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve..

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side..

Vernier :: Vernier (n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument..

Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship..

Sliding :: Sliding (a.) That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.

Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..

Coast :: Coast (n.) To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice..

Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc..

Horse :: Horse (a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.

Slide :: Slide (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.

Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim..

Slide :: Slide (n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.

Recidivous :: Recidivous (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.

Slider :: Slider (n.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).

Skip :: Skip (n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock..

Slide :: Slide (n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide..

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..

Slid :: Slid () imp. & p. p. of Slide.

Telescope :: Telescope (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another..

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