Definition of Side lever. Meaning of Side lever. Synonyms of Side lever

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Definition of Side lever

Side lever
Side cut, a canal or road branching out from the main one. [U.S.] Side dish, one of the dishes subordinate to the main course. Side glance, a glance or brief look to one side. Side hook (Carp.), a notched piece of wood for clamping a board to something, as a bench. Side lever, a working beam of a side-lever engine. Side-lever engine, a marine steam engine having a working beam of each side of the cylinder, near the bottom of the engine, communicating motion to a crank that is above them. Side pipe (Steam Engine), a steam or exhaust pipe connecting the upper and lower steam chests of the cylinder of a beam engine. Side plane, a plane in which the cutting edge of the iron is at the side of the stock. Side posts (Carp.), posts in a truss, usually placed in pairs, each post set at the same distance from the middle of the truss, for supporting the principal rafters, hanging the tiebeam, etc. Side rod. (a) One of the rods which connect the piston-rod crosshead with the side levers, in a side-lever engine. (b) See Parallel rod, under Parallel. Side screw (Firearms), one of the screws by which the lock is secured to the side of a firearm stock. Side table, a table placed either against the wall or aside from the principal table. Side tool (Mach.), a cutting tool, used in a lathe or planer, having the cutting edge at the side instead of at the point. Side wind, a wind from one side; hence, an indirect attack, or indirect means. --Wright.

Meaning of Side lever from wikipedia

- SS Pacific (1849) Side-lever engine of RMS Persia (1855) Model of the twin side-lever engines of the 1836 Thames River steamboat Ruby Early Napier side-lever engine...
- A lever is a simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or fulcrum. A lever is a rigid body capable of rotating on a point...
- The front lever is a gymnastic and calisthenic move - a static hold normally performed on the still rings or the pull-up bar. A front lever is performed...
- production of marine steam engines. The type of engine he used for ships was a side-lever design, in which a beam was mounted alongside the cylinder. This reduced...
- adjustable. These wheels, also called pinwheels, could be set by using a side lever which could expose anywhere from 0 to 9 teeth, and therefore when coupled...
- built at New York City by William H. Webb in 1851. Her 240 hp (180 kW) side-lever engine was supplied by the Allaire Iron Works. James Adger was purchased...
- pre-war HWZ sales literature shows an illustration of that thirty-shot top-lever spring piston air pistol, only one specimen of that HWZ LP-1 air pistol...
- Hall was equipped with twin surface condensing side-lever engines of the "gr****hopper" or "half-lever" type, totalling 500 indicated horsepower (370 kW)...
- was powered by two 26-foot (7.9-m) diameter side paddle wheels driven by a large one-cylinder side-lever engine built by Novelty Iron Works of New York...
- by changing the internal wiring). The volume pedal had a spring-loaded side-lever that could be used to actuate the "Glide" and "Trumpet Wow-wow" effects...