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Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler..

Blast :: Blast (n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast..

Water Gauge :: Water gauge () An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge..

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

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

Jacket :: "Jacket (v. t.) To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket..

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler..

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..

Blow-out :: Blow-out (n.) The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam..

Shatter :: Shatter (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning..

Multiflue :: Multiflue (a.) Having many flues; as, a multiflue boiler. See Boiler..

Lag :: Lag (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine..

Copper :: Copper (n.) A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper..

Rupture :: Rupture (n.) A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion..

Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam..

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..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..

Manhole :: Manhole (n.) A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing..

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

Locomotive :: Locomotive (n.) A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..

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