Hydrant: alternatives and connections

The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to th…

A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reser…

A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe.

The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.

To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.

Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.

A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide.

A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horri…

A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.

A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one…

A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet.

A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper val…

Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or ileocaecal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine.

A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.

The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from…

A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the…