Word Meanings - DASHPOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock. Note: It consists of a chamber, containing air or a liquid, in which a piston , attached to the weight, falls freely until it enters

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A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock. Note: It consists of a chamber, containing air or a liquid, in which a piston , attached to the weight, falls freely until it enters a space from which the air or liquid can escape but slowly , when its fall is gradually checked. Note: A cataract of an engine is sometimes called a dashpot.

Related words: (words related to DASHPOT)

• FALLALS; FAL-LALS
  Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• HYDRAULICON
  An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.
• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• ENGINER
  A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak.
• FALLER
  A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
• ENGINERY
  1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• HYDRAULICS
  That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like. Note: As a science,
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• FALLOW
  Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
• PISTON RING
  A spring packing ring, or any of several such rings, for a piston.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• LIQUIDATION
  The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• INEQUIVALVE; INEQUIVALVULAR
  Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster.
• AIR ENGINE
  An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• PILOT VALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• MULTIVALVE; MULTIVALVULAR
  Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons. (more info) 1. Having many valves.
• UNLIQUIDATED
  Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.