Word.ws English Dictionary

top feed

top feed noun: in locomotive boilers, a feed water check valve placed on the top of the boiler drum. This encourages rapid mixing of the cold feedwater with the hot steam, reducing the risk of thermal shock to the heated parts of the boiler.

Noun

top feed (plural top feeds)

  1. In locomotive boilers, a feed water check valve placed on the top of the boiler drum. This encourages rapid mixing of the cold feedwater with the hot steam, reducing the risk of thermal shock to the heated parts of the boiler.

Forms of top feed

pluraltop feeds

Questions about top feed

What does top feed mean?
Top feed means in locomotive boilers, a feed water check valve placed on the top of the boiler drum. This encourages rapid mixing of the cold feedwater with the hot steam, reducing the risk of thermal shock to the heated parts of the boiler.
What part of speech is top feed?
Top feed is a noun.
What is the plural of top feed?
The plural of top feed is top feeds.

Words near top feed in the dictionary

  1. top edging
  2. Top End
  3. top end of town
  4. Top Ender
  5. Top Enders
  6. top feed
  7. top feeds
  8. top fermentation
  9. top flight
  10. top flights
  11. top forty

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: top feed (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “top feed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/top_feed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.