Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contrivance for preventing the access, as to a room, of the effluvia arising from drains and sinks.
- noun A reservoir and escape-valve placed at the joints or higher points of a water-main or pipe-line to allow the escape of air which may accumulate in the pipes.
- noun A small funnel of glass fastened in the inside of a barometer-tube to catch any bubbles of air that would otherwise rise through the mercury into the vacuum-chamber.
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Examples
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It is, on the whole, advisable to make the pump of flint glass, or at all events the air-trap tube and the fall tubes.
On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall
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This is easily attained by regulating the main mercury supply at the pinch cock situated between the tube from the upper reservoir and the air-trap tube, the other cocks being almost wide open.
On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall
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An air-trap opens into the Sala dei Gendarmi, so called because two gendarmes in court uniform are there stationed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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"On the contrary, on the contrary," said Mrs. Mivers, triumphantly; and she proceeded philosophically to explain that all the fevers, aches, pains, and physical ills that harass the poor arise from the want of an air-trap in the chimney and a perforated network in the window-pane.
Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"On the contrary, on the contrary," said Mrs. Mivers, triumphantly; and she proceeded philosophically to explain that all the fevers, aches, pains, and physical ills that harass the poor arise from the want of an air-trap in the chimney and a perforated network in the window-pane.
Lucretia — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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