Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel, usually a cylinder with curved ends, for collecting the steam from a boiler. Such a receptacle is almost always used on a water-tube boiler to permit a sufficient volume of steam to be accumulated so that the pressure will not fluctuate as steam is taken intermittently by the engine.
- noun A pipe or cylinder on top of or above a steam-boiler and connected thereto by a short neck, serving as a dome to allow the flow of steam from the water to be slow enough therein to permit entrained water to settle at the bottom and be drained back.
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Examples
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From steam-drum and 'scape-valve jetted clouds of flat-driven steam.
To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days Charles King 1888
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In this position the action was continued with the enemy, reinforced now by the first battery which had been brought down, till the steam-drum was penetrated and a shot entering the boilers let out all the water; the ammunition gave out and several guns were disabled, one officer and several men being killed.
The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. 1877
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At the same time that the Manassas rammed she fired her single gun, the shot lodging in the sand bags protecting the steam-drum.
The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. 1877
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Confederate shot having shattered the steam-drum of a Federal vessel, and nearly all who were on board having perished, either by scalding or drowning.
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Unfortunately, a 42-pound shot from the breastwork entered the casemates of the Mound City and burst her steam-drum, scalding 125 persons.
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The bare tube of steam-drum water level difficult and causes usually includes varying sizes which can be ar water hammer.
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