Water mill: alternatives and connections

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected pa…

To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produce…

The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.

An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of S…

The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stro…

The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.

A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.

A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of…

The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.

To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.

A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and m…

A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.

Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hyd…

A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines…

A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into th…

To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

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

The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge u…