Crosshead is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CROSSHEAD in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a beam connecting piston rod to connecting rod
• a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
• a sliding member of a reciprocating engine for keeping the motion of the joint between a piston rod and a connecting rod in a straight line.
• a crosspiece on a rudderpost by which the rudder is turned.
• a transverse timber for transmitting the lifting effort of two or more jackscrews supporting it to the foot of a shore that it supports.
• subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
• A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.
• a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text
• metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a metal block to which one end of a piston rod is secured

Words related to CROSSHEAD

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Words that contain CROSSHEAD

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How to use CROSSHEAD in a sentence

• The piston rod loose in cross-head will make a knock, which also appears in the wrist, but it is not there.
• The cross-head loose in the guides will make it knock.
• This a straight line direct-acting engine, with steam and air pistons connected to a single rod through a crosshead which connects with two fly wheels.
• The strains are direct and the power and resistance are equalized by the inertia of the crosshead, piston, rods, and fly wheels.
• The two pistons are connected by one rod in common, which is fixed at its extremity to a cross-head, D, running in slides, E and F, and is connected with the connecting rod, G.
• The crosshead runs in guides made from a piece of gas pipe with the sides cut out and threads cut on both ends.
• This long frame had to be made to accommodate the crosshead which was necessary for such a short cylinder.
• At the lower ends of these screws are geared nuts all rotated simultaneously by a system of gears which cause the movable crosshead to rise and fall as desired.
• The pump under the low pressure cylinder is worked directly from its cross-head by an extension of the piston rod.

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