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hydraulick

hydraulick is the obsolete form of hydraulic.

Meaning of hydraulic

Adjective

hydraulic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to water.
    • Tho' there are but seventeen feet water^([sic]) in the channel, I have seen vessels of five hundred ton enter into it. I know not why this entrance is left so neglected, as we are not in want of able engineers in France, in the hydraulic branch, a part of the mathematics to which I have most...1757, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana, page 47
  2. Related to, or operated by, hydraulics.
    • A hydraulic press is operated by the differential pressure of water on pistons of different dimensions.
  3. Able to set underwater.
    • hydraulic gypsum; hydraulic cements

See all 4 meanings of hydraulic

Forms of hydraulick

third-person singular presenthydraulicks
present participlehydraulicking
past participlehydraulicked
pasthydraulicked

Questions about hydraulick

What is hydraulick the obsolete form of?
Hydraulick is the obsolete form of hydraulic.

Words near hydraulick in the dictionary

  1. hydraulically
  2. hydraulician
  3. hydraulicians
  4. hydraulicities
  5. hydraulicity
  6. hydraulick
  7. hydraulicked
  8. hydraulicker
  9. hydraulickers
  10. hydraulicking
  11. hydraulicks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hydraulick (page history and authors); hydraulic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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