Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a steam-boiler with an interior or inclosed safety-valve, the mechanism for lifting the valve from its seat.
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Examples
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I got one arm over the lifting-gear (which, of course, wasn't going), and heard Hopkins on the other footplate.
Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917
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Now and then a jet of it shot up between the joints of the flooring or spouted through the opening made for the lifting-gear in the centerboard trunk.
Vane of the Timberlands Harold Bindloss 1905
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