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Fire-plugs. As to the duty of urban authorities to provide fire-plugs, see (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c.55), s. 66, and (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34), s. 124. As to the like duty of undertakers of waterworks, see (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 17), ss. 38-43. As to the metropolis, see 34 & 35 Vict. c. 113, s. 34....
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Fuse plug
A plug fitted to the fuse hole of a shell to hold the fuse...
Plug board
A switchboard in which connections are made by means of plugs...
Plugging
The act of stopping with a plug...
Coherer
Any device in which an imperfectly conducting contact between pieces of metal or other conductors loosely resting against each other is materially improved in conductivity by the influence of Hertzian waves so called by Sir O J Lodge in 1894 on the assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere or weld together a condition easily destroyed by tapping A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts between terminal wires or plugs called conductor plugs...
estop
estop es·topped es·top·ping [Anglo-French estop(p)er, literally, to stop up, from Middle French estouper, ultimately from Latin stuppa hemp fiber (used for plugging holes)] : to impede or bar by estoppel ...
estoppel
estoppel [probably from Middle French estoupail plug, stopper, from estouper to stop up see estop ] 1 : a bar to the use of contradictory words or acts in asserting a claim or right against another ;esp : equitable estoppel in this entry compare waiver equitable estoppel : an estoppel that prevents a person from adopting a new position that contradicts a previous position maintained by words, silence, or actions when allowing the new position to be adopted would unfairly harm another person who has relied on the previous position to his or her loss called also estoppel in pais NOTE: Traditionally equitable estoppel required that the original position was a misrepresentation which was being denied in the new position. Some jurisdictions retain the requirement of misrepresentation. estoppel by deed : an estoppel precluding a person from denying the truth of any matter that he or she asserted in a deed esp. regarding his or her title to the property compare after-acquired title a...
Breech pin
A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm to close the bottom of the bore...
Cavendish
Leaf tobacco softened sweetened and pressed into plugs or cakes...
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