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Carnots cycle
An ideal heat engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations 1 Isothermal expansion to a
blowby
the leakage of gases from the combustion cylinder of an internal combustion engine between the piston and cylinder wall into the crankcase
Blast pipe
The exhaust pipe of a steam engine or any pipe delivering steam or air when so constructed as to cause a blast
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Ballistics
The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine
Catapulta
Catapulta, a warlike engine to shoot darts; a crossbow.
Ballista
An ancient military engine in the form of a crossbow used for hurling large missiles
Cowcatcher
A strong inclined frame usually of wrought iron bars in front of a locomotive engine for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway as cattle the pilot
Damage feasant or faisant
inanimate, see Ambergate, etc., Ry. Co. v. Midland Ry. Co., (1853) 23 LJ QB 17, where a locomotive engine was distrained damage feasant. By the (English) Pound-Breach Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 30), any person
cooled
or become cool or made cool as specified often used as a combining form as air cooled auto engine the cooled milk was put in the refrigerator
Castigatory
Castigatory, a certain engine of correction, otherwise called the tre-bucket, tumbrel tymborella, cucking-stool, scolding-stool, ducking-stool, goginstole, and cokestole, corrupted from choaking-stool. It
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