slide valve

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A valve in a steam engine, designed to slide back and forth to cover and uncover the openings through which steam enters the cylinder.
    — 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.

词形变化

slide valves plural
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