Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cup-shaped piece placed on the top of the upper bearing-boxes of a roll-train, weaker than the weakest part of the roll itself, and designed to yield by breaking if too severe a stress comes upon the roll from a piece too cool to be compressed in the pass.
- noun A cap for an engine or working-beam bearing designed to break if excess water in the cylinder endangers the transmission mechanism through inability to escape from the cylinder as the mechanism nears its dead-points.
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Examples
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The nightstand barnacled with safety-cap bottles, wads of Kleenex, squished foam earplugs.
Florida 2009
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The nightstand barnacled with safety-cap bottles, wads of Kleenex, squished foam earplugs.
Florida 2009
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When you plucked the safety-cap off the end of a cable, you could see the glass fiber -
The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992
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The composition is covered with a safety-cap, which protects it from moisture and accidental ignition; also with a water-cap of peculiar construction, intended to protect the flame from being extinguished on ricochet.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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One bottle had the safety-cap removed and was open.
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