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Definitions

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a valve to regulate the admission or egress of air; esp. a valve which opens inwardly in a steam boiler and allows air to enter.
  2. n. etc. See under Air. Ball, Check, etc.

Examples

  • “The air cells may all be represented as soft-walled bags opening freely into the bellows ” there being, so far as anatomists yet know, no valves or corresponding contrivances anywhere except at the glottis, which corresponds with the nozzle and air valve both, of our bellows.”

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. carbureter
  2. pallet
  3. valve
  4. train-pipe
  5. pilot-valve
  6. hydraulic ram
  7. release-cock
  8. snifting-valve
  9. exhaust-pallet
  10. foot valve
  1. exhaust-valve
  2. plunger-pump
  3. air valve
  4. mixer-valve
  5. vacuum-valve
  6. airgun
  7. carburetor
  8. safety valve
  9. relief-valve
  10. air-valve
  1. bunsen
  2. condenser
  3. Etna
  4. Bunsen burner
  5. self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
  6. triple valve
  7. cock
  8. gasbag
  9. air-tap
  10. damper
  1. intake-valve
  2. bellows
  3. packing-ring
  4. admission-valve
  5. controlling-valve
  6. bucket-valve
  7. bung-vent
  8. coupling-valve
  9. discharge-valve
  10. petcock
  1. choke
  2. snifting valve
  3. vacuum valve
  4. equilibrium valve
  5. air-trap
  6. evacuant
  7. key
  8. suck
  9. float-feed
  10. priming-valve
  1. timing-valve
  2. tube-ignition
  3. tail-valve

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