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A locomotive with pilot at each end. Knight.

• PILOTLAMPPILOTLIGHT
  A small incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by its brightness the voltage of the current.
• Knight-er-ratic
  Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.
• PILOTVALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• Knighthead
  A bollard timber. See under Bollard.
• KNIGHTBACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• PILOTWHEEL
  A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.
• Knighthood
  The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry.
• KNIGHTBANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of batt
• Knightless
  Unbecoming a knight.
• KNIGHTBARONET
  See Baronet.
• Knightliness
  The character or bearing suitable for a knight; chivalry.
• KNIGHTERRANT
  A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
• KNIGHTERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian [i. e., conscience] of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'erru

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