What is the meaning of GIFFARD INJECTOR. Phrases containing GIFFARD INJECTOR
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A nonlifting injector
Torpedo, part of trainman's equipment; it is placed on the track as a signal to the engineer. Also the injector on the locomotive that forces water from tank to boiler. To gun means to control air-brake system from rear of train
Ascend a steep grade with the injector on
Some old-time engineers preferred to work the water (operate the injector and watch the water glass or gauge cocks). On most roads the fireman now works the water
Turret at top of locomotive boiler, over crown sheet, from which saturated steam is taken for operation of pumps, stoker, injectors, and headlight turbine
Quake ones gizzard is American slang for to vomit
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To describe someone mad and wacky, or stupid ie you are such a muppet. From the late Jim Henson's "Muppets - mad, zany puppets who had their own show for many years and also played a huge role in the success of Sesame Street.
Bow and arrow is London Cockney rhyming slang for a barrow. Bow and arrow is London Cockney rhyming slang for sparrow.
n A toupee.
Apple−polisher is American slang for a flatterer.
Short for Plan Position Indicator; a radar display.
PCP
Women who are so toned, so good looking, with excellent physique. Top of the line fitness competitors.
Homosexual man (used in gay bashing).
workman carrying fish in a barrow on the merchant’s premises
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One who, or that which, injects.
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A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2.
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The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.
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A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals.
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A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
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A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor.
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The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.
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The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.
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Alt. of Piffara
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A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.
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A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.
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