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slide valves

slide valves is the plural of slide valve.

Meaning of slide valve

Noun

slide valve (plural slide valves)

  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...1942 February, “Notes and News: An Historic American Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 56

Questions about slide valves

What is slide valves the plural of?
Slide valves is the plural of slide valve.

Words near slide valves in the dictionary

  1. slide truck
  2. slide trucks
  3. slide trumpet
  4. slide trumpets
  5. slide valve
  6. slide valves
  7. slide whistle
  8. slide whistles
  9. slide-butt
  10. slide-butts
  11. slide-show

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