Crawl Stroke - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: crawl strokeCrawl stroke
A racing stroke in which the swimmer lying flat on the water with face submerged takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee...
By stroke
An accidental or a slyly given stroke...
Dead stroke
Making a stroke without recoil deadbeat...
backstroke
a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back It is usually executed with backward moving circular arm strokes and a flutter kick...
Otto cycle
A four stroke cycle for internal combustion engines consisting of the following operations First stroke suction into cylinder of explosive charge as of gas and air second stroke compression ignition and explosion of this charge third stroke the working stroke expansion of the gases fourth stroke expulsion of the products of combustion from the cylinder This is the cycle invented by Beau de Rochas in 1862 and applied by Dr Otto in 1877 in the Otto Crossley gas engine the first commercially successful internal combustion engine made...
Instroke
An inward stroke specif in a steam or other engine a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft opposed to outstroke...
Internal combustion
Designating or pertaining to any engine called an Internal combustion engine in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder as by the explosion of a gas and not in a separate chamber as in a steam engine boiler The gas used may be a fixed gas or one derived from alcohol ether gasoline petrol naphtha oil petroleum etc There are three main classes 1 gas engines proper using fixed gases as coal blast furnace or producer gas 2 engines using the vapor of a volatile fluid as the typical gasoline petrol engine 3 oil engines using either an atomized spray or the vapor produced by heat of a comparatively heavy oil as petroleum or kerosene In all of these the gas is mixed with a definite amount of air the charge is composed in the cylinder and is then exploded either by a flame of gas flame ignition now little used by a hot tube tube ignition or the like by an electric spark electric ignition the usual method is gasoline engines or by the hea...
Crawl
To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground as a worm to move slowly on hands and knees to creep...
Crawler
One who or that which crawls a creeper a reptile...
Creep
To move along the ground or on any other surface on the belly as a worm or reptile to move as a child on the hands and knees to crawl...
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