piston-rods

One even found his way into the engine-room, difficult as it might seem to gain access to it, and curled himself up between the piston-rods.

The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier 2009

The piston-rods of the engines so regularly coming up from below, to look (as well they may) at the bright weather, and so regularly almost knocking their iron heads against the cross beam of the skylight, and never doing it!

Reprinted Pieces 2007

This happened several times in the course of the trip; the piston-rods had constantly to be taken out and cleared of a thick black deposit.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

One even found his way into the engine-room, difficult as it might seem to gain access to it, and curled himself up between the piston-rods.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Scientific phrases are used like scientific wheels and piston-rods to make swifter and smoother yet the path of the comfortable.

Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

Murphy, the hostler, was hovering about the big throbbing locomotive, putting a final polish on the oil-cups and piston-rods.

The Short Line War Merwin-Webster

At length in going a journey comes a time when one tiredly shrinks from the work of speech, when observation dozes, and thought lolls like a limp sail that only idly stirs at the passing zephyrs; the legs like piston-rods strike on; when the pleasure is like that almost of dull narcotics; one realises only dimly that one is moving.

Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

It is attached by massive iron work to the ends of the piston-rods, and of course it rises when the pistons are driven upward by the pressure of the water.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

If your eyes are sharp and you are fond of engines, and like to "pat" them, as I do, you will notice that the cranks and piston-rods work outside the wheels, not between them, and underneath the boiler, as in the Great Western engines.

Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Various

The movements of the eccentric aroused Bob's chief wonder, the two piston-rods connected with it and guiding the motion appearing in their working like the crooked limbs of a bandy-legged giant "jumping up and down," as he expressed it, "in a hoppety-kickety dance."

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene