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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a boiler of the fire-tube design, a tube of specially heavy gage or stock, fitted to receive nuts on the ends, which project through both tube-sheets, so as to serve as a through-stay to prevent these flat surfaces from bulging under internal pressure.
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