Word Meanings - FOOTVALVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; esp., such a valve in a steam-engine condenser opening to the air pump.

• OPENSEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• Checkmate
  The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
• Enginery
  The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
• Open-handed
  Generous; liberal; munificent.
• Open-headed
  Bareheaded.
• Suction
  The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
• OPENVERDICT
  A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause.
• Checkmated
  of Checkmate
• Engine-sized
  Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper.
• Open-hearted
  Candid; frank; generous.
• STEAMENGINE
  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 machin
• Checkmating
  of Checkmate
• Valved
  Having a valve or valve; valvate.
• VALVESHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• Checked
  of Check

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