Word Meanings - TRUNNIONED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.

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• OSCILLATING
  That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.
• ENGINER
  A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak.
• 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.
• PROVIDENCE
  A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in
• OSCILLATING CURRENT
  A current alternating in direction.
• STEAM
  smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or 1. The elastic, aëriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. 2. The mist formed by condensed vapor;
• PROVIDORE
  One who makes provision; a purveyor. De Foe.
• OSCILLATOR
  Any device for producing electric oscillations; esp., an apparatus for generating electric waves in a system of wireless telegraphy. An instrument for measuring rigidity by the torsional oscillations of a weighted wire.
• STEAMBOAT
  A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
• CYLINDER
  A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular. The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface.
• ENGINEMAN
  A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.
• STEAM ENGINE
  An engine moved by steam. Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the action of the valve gear, and communicates motion to the
• ENGINEER CORPS; CORPS OF ENGINEERS
  In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction
• PROVIDE
  1. To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. "Provide us all things necessary." Shak. 2. To supply; to afford; to contribute. Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind,
• STEAMSHIP
  A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.
• OSCILLATIVE
  Tending to oscillate; vibratory. I. Taylor.
• PROVIDENTLY
  In a provident manner.
• STEAMY
  Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty. Cowper.
• STEAMINESS
  The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.
• STEAMBOATING
  The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards. Knight. (more info) 1. The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
• AIR ENGINE
  An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• RADIAL ENGINE
  An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft.
• SEMIRADIAL ENGINE
  See ABOVE
• IMPROVIDENTLY
  In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton.
• IMPROVIDED
  Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared. All improvided for dread of death. E. Hall.