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Cleading :: Cleading (n.) A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine..

Lagging :: Lagging (n.) The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading..

Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.

Cylindrically :: Cylindrically (adv.) In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.

Let-off :: Let-off (n.) A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom..

Muff :: Muff (n.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc..

Turtle :: Turtle (n.) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.

Ungula :: Ungula (n.) A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse..

Muff :: Muff (n.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe..

Nozzle :: Nozzle (n.) A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler..

Flatting :: Flatting (n.) The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out..

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

Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..

Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.

Condenser :: Condenser (n.) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine..

Roll :: Roll (v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

Condenser :: Condenser (n.) An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape..

Tubbing :: Tubbing (n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety..

Neuraxis :: Neuraxis (n.) See Axis cylinder, under Axis..

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