Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A blast of steam caused to issue from a nozle.
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Examples
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The apparatus consists of an electric resistance furnace containing coils of nickel wire, a small (interchangeable) multi-tubular boiler, and a steam-jet apparatus for reducing the air pressure at the exit end, so as to cause a flow of air through the boiler.
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The water was made lukewarm by introducing a steam-jet into several casks which were kept full.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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The broken stone was heated in piles by a steam-jet; a pipe line on the ground was made up of short lengths of straight pipe alternating with T-sections -- turned up.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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And when experiments at last began to be made in the mechanisms by which steam might be utilized they were such as boys now make for amusement; such as throwing a steam-jet against the vanes of a paddle-wheel.
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
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The cry swelled in a quavering crescendo, lingered with the persistence of terror, then abruptly ceased, like the cutting off of a shrieking steam-jet.
The Paternoster Ruby Charles Edmonds Walk
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Y.M. A steam-jet cannot break down such a substance.
What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872
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O.M. Suppose I turn upon one of them a steam-jet during a long succession of hours.
What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872
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For a steam-jet ejector, the motive fluid is steam.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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