slide valve
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "With its long tapered cowcatcher, massive headlamp and enormous diamond smokestack behind, wagon-top boiler, high running-plate above the driving-wheels reached from a front door in the square side-window cab, cylinders with slide valves mounted on top, and double bogie tender, General in its present form is typical of much earlier American locomotive practice."
- "The inside cylinder, with its piston-valve, had its crank set at 135deg. to the outside-cylinder cranks, which were at the usual 90 deg. to one another; the latter cylinders had slide-valves."