Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Half the stroke or movement, as of a valve or a piston. Also called
half-travel .
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Examples
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The Legacy was badly out of whack, insisting on rolling to the left, and requiring Lepore to hold the controls a half-throw to the right just to maintain wings-level flight.
William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash Langewiesche, William 2009
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